dc.creator | Talley, Heather Laine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T17:20:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-11-21 | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-11-21 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07102008-134713 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12886 | |
dc.description.abstract | This sociological and cultural analysis of facial disfigurement employs multi-sited ethnographic methods, participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography to examine four sites in which faces defined as disfigured are “repaired.” Characterizing work aimed at repairing the face as “face work,” I demonstrate that face work is a multifaceted, complex, and contradictory process wherein the face is technically repaired and what disfigurement means is negotiated. I examine an emerging and contested biomedical technology, face transplantation; facial feminization surgery aimed at and used by male-to-female transsexuals; reality television show Extreme Makeover; and international not-for-profit Operation Smile. I argue that face work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face but rather the work of making the disfigured human. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | disability studies | |
dc.subject | symbolic interactionism | |
dc.subject | reconstructive surgery | |
dc.subject | cosmetic surgery | |
dc.subject | sociology of the body | |
dc.subject | disfigurement | |
dc.subject | face | |
dc.title | Face Work: Cultural, Technical, and Surgical Interventions for Facial "Disfigurement" | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Laura M. Carpenter | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Steven J. Tepper | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Jeffrey P. Bishop | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2010-11-21 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2010-11-21 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Monica J. Casper | |