{"product_id":"intact","title":"Intact","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas'' Philippa Perry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. .  . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as Clare Chambers argues, nobody''s body is ever allowed to be good enough, just as it is'' Timandra Harkness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat would it take for your body to be good enough?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pressure to change our bodies is overwhelming. We strive to defy ageing, build our biceps, cure our disabilities, conceal our quirks. Surrounded by filtered photos and surgically-enhanced features, we must contort our physical selves to prejudiced standards of beauty. Perfection is impossible, and even an acceptable body seems out of reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this mind-expanding book, Cambridge philosopher Clare Chambers argues that the unmodified body is a key political principle. While defending our right to change our bodies, she argues that the social pressures to modify undermine equality. She shows how the connected ideas of the \u003ci\u003enatural\u003c\/i\u003e body, the \u003ci\u003enormal\u003c\/i\u003e body, and the \u003ci\u003ewhole\u003c\/i\u003e body have been used both to disrupt and to maintain social hierarchies - sometimes oppressing, other times liberating. The body becomes a site of political importance: a place where hierarchies of sex, gender, race, disability, age, and class are reinforced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through a thought-provoking analysis of the power dynamics that structure our society, and with examples ranging widely from bodybuilding to breast implants, deafness to male circumcision, \u003ci\u003eIntact\u003c\/i\u003e stresses that we must break away from the oppressive forces that demand we alter our bodies. Instead, it offers a bold, transformative vision of the human body that is equal without expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312825999742,"sku":"NW9780141992501","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141992501.jpg?v=1778589787","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/intact","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}