The representation of the female body as degenerative, and improvable through surgery, sits within a broader Western culture in which youth is valorised, ageing pathologised, and concomitant self-surveillance and self-improvement are strongly encouraged [ 35, 36].
Jansson valorised coffee and pancakes and reticence and the mystery of others.
It is for these roles they are rewarded and valorised by society.
Is it "racist" simply to believe in the biological existence of races correlated with normatively valorised characteristics such as intelligence and propensity for violence?
In an age where poetic voice is often valorised above all else, it is worth praising the emotional force and cerebrally transformative capacities of a poet's writing.
– which she responded to by decrying the sexism underlying these particular criticisms because it's the kind of behaviour for which male musicians are valorised.
When Danny describes a stand-off game of pool as "he raped the table, hard and fast and powerful" you wonder if this stuff is just being valorised.
In the US, college players are stars in their own right, and Te'o was valorised for being an inspiring leader on the field, and a devout young man off it.
At 71, he is renowned as one of the great experimental theatremakers, valorised as a director, writer, performer, painter, choreographer, sculptor, video artist, scenographer and sound and lighting designer.
Place's project, it continues, "is about historical, systematic anti-black representations being replicated and valorised as art – and to repeat the refrain of Ferguson protesters – we're sick of it".
