Decolonising My Body

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Informed by research from around the world, Afua examines at how individual and collective notions of what is beautiful are constructed or stripped away from us. Through personal anecdotes, interviews from beauty experts, practitioners and service users, she explores the global history of skin, hair and body modification rituals and how it has affected how…

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‘Celebrates women how they are, as they are’ GILLIAN ANDERSON
‘There’s something on every page of this book that you didn’t know before’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘Brave and honest’ ELIF SHAFAK

A global exploration of ancestral beauty practices by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Brit(ish)

OUR BODIES TELL OUR STORY.

This powerful global history of beauty by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Brit(ish) Afua Hirsch dismantles the colonial falsehoods that shape our sense of belonging and celebrates the pioneering stories and ideas of women from marginalised groups.

‘Remarkable’ OBSERVER
‘Intimate’ GUARDIAN
‘Vital’ i PAPER

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Weight 0.21 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.9 × 1.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

229

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

646.72 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K