Disobedient Bodies : Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri
For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently. This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.
It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection, opening in October 2023.
About the Author
Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, author and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. In 2023 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain's Lost Masterpieces, as well as BBC 2's Back in Time for Brixton and the Cannes Silver Lion award-winning Hair Power for Channel 4. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account, Disobedient Bodies.
Praise for Disobedient Bodies
'Radical, incisive, thoughtful . . . I can't recommend enough'
- Vicky Spratt
'This is the book we have needed . . . her pièce de resistance, a clarion call for us to reconsider the entire contemporary concept of beauty . . . empowering'
- Glamour, Best New Books in October
‘Powerful'
- The i, Best New Books to Read in October 2023
'Calls for a radical reimagination and holistic reclamation of beauty'
- Dazed
Publisher: Wellcome Collection
Date Published: 5 October 2023
Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN: 9781800817920
