Metamorphosis : : Who We Become after Facial Paralysis / / Faye Linda Wachs.
Losing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived e...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) :; 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- 1 When Life Gives You Lemons . . . Interview Lots of Other People Also with Lemons
- 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face
- 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain
- 4 It’s My Face—Why That Matters
- 5 Disrupted Selves
- 6 Someone I Would Rather Be
- 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change
- Appendix A: Summarizing Facial Difference
- Appendix B: Overview of Methods
- Appendix C: Summary of Participants with Facial Differences
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR