{"product_id":"my-body-is-not-a-fiona-ryan-9798235290006","title":"My Body Is Not a Brand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when the body becomes a public project?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Body Is Not a Brand\u003c\/em\u003e is a sharp, timely work of cultural criticism about beauty, wellness, influencer culture, self measurement, and the exhausting pressure to make the modern self look visibly controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom filtered faces and skincare routines to gym selfies, clean eating, Botox, Ozempic conversations, supplement culture, sleep tracking, body positivity, anti ageing anxiety, and the soft commercial language of self care, Fiona Ryan examines how ordinary human life has been transformed into something to polish, measure, display, and sell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book looks at the modern beauty and wellness economy with clear eyes. It asks why care so often begins to feel like correction. Why rest has become another aesthetic. Why food is treated as moral evidence. Why ageing naturally can feel like a form of refusal. Why the female body is still read, judged, and commented on before the woman herself is fully heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside this book, readers will find an intelligent examination of: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe beauty industry and the invention of new flaws\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfluencer culture and the rise of the algorithmic face\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWellness routines as public performances of discipline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFood guilt, clean eating, and appetite under surveillance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGym culture and the body as proof of effort\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnti ageing pressure, Botox, grey hair, and the fear of time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelf care as both genuine need and profitable market\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClass, race, money, and the price of looking well\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFitness trackers, data, and the dashboard self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe quiet refusal to turn the body into a brand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is not a book against beauty, care, style, pleasure, health, or the desire to feel good.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book against the culture that turns every body into evidence, every routine into content, every insecurity into a product, and every private self into something that must be optimised for approval.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Body Is Not a Brand\u003c\/em\u003e is for readers who have ever looked at a photograph and felt smaller, opened an app and felt judged, bought a product in the hope of becoming more acceptable, or wondered why simply existing in a human body has begun to feel like so much work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeautiful, angry, thoughtful, and deeply relevant, this book names the pressure many people feel but struggle to explain.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiona Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235290006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Bell Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Fiona Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659869729023,"sku":"9798235290006","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-body-is-not-a-fiona-ryan-9798235290006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}