Introduction: Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Dilemma --1. The Rise of the Surgical Fix -- 2. Beauty and the Female Body -- 3. Public Face/Private Suffering -- 4. From Objectified Body to Embodied Subject -- 5. Decisions and Deliberations -- 6. Choice and Informed Consent Revisited -- 7. Facing the Dilemma
Summary
In an analysis from a feminist standpoint, Davis argues that cosmetic surgery is a dilemma: both symptom and solution, oppression and liberation, all in one
