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This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries.By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour generated a governing normative order in Western societies. Normality was defined as conformity with a narrow model of conventional human behaviour. However, this model has since been displaced by an anti-conformism, in which normality is defined as absolute self-fulfilment, defying older restrictions on our behaviour. Paradoxically, absolute individualism and rebellion against conformity have become compulsory.This book explores in detail how this new normative order plays out today in the arenas of politics, health, and sex and sexuality. In all these areas, the uncompromising perfectionism of our norms of self-expression leads to increasingly deep-seated and ubiquitous anger, anxiety, and dissatisfaction.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: Normal Now
• Subtitle: Individualism as Conformity
• Author: Mark G. E. Kelly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9781509550944
• ISBN: 1509550941
• ID: 36975268
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 376 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2022

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