Disobedient Bodies, Emma Dabiri
Disobedient Bodies, Emma Dabiri
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Disobedient Bodies

Author: Emma Dabiri

Narrator: Emma Dabiri

Unabridged: 2 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Profile Audio

Published: 10/05/2023


Synopsis

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing.

This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. Offering alternative ways of seeing beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times, and places, as well as looking beyond the capitalist model - to reconnect with our birth right and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.

It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in autumn 2023.

About Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is a regular presenter on BBC and contributor for The Guardian. She is a teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her writing has been published in a number of anthologies, academic journals, and the national press. She lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 10, 2023

Disobedient Bodies is a short publication accompanying an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London. It reads like a long essay and though it packs a punch, I found it lacked some depth. That being said, I think it would be an excellent introductory read to the topics of consumed beauty, body......more

Goodreads review by Mquzama on May 09, 2024

*I would recommend this for anyone even remotely interested in the politics of beauty. It’s essay-length means no matter how little you end up getting from it, you wouldn’t have necessarily wasted your time.* I would love to claim that it was my interest in the politics of beauty that made me buy thi......more

Goodreads review by silly_ebadu on December 03, 2023

listened to the audio book. really really loved this. giving it 4 stars though cos i wish it was longer😭......more

Goodreads review by Niamh on March 09, 2025

Loved this. Dabiri's voice is as empowering as it is eloquent, encouraging us to ask how we might live (and flourish!) if we viewed ourselves as more than just objects. A fascinating mini-history and examination of the permeation of the beauty myth, exploring what it means to be beautiful not only i......more

Goodreads review by Arya on June 22, 2024

good, very good.......more