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1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Cosmetic Surgery in the Age of Gender; PART 1 Revisiting Feminist Critique; 2 Twenty Years in the Twilight Zone; 3 Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery: Some Reflections on Suffering, Agency, and Embodied Difference; 4 Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies; 5 Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects; Part 2 Representing Cosmetic Surgery; 6 Agency Made Over?Cosmetic Surgery and Femininity in Women's Magazines and Makeover Television |
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7 The "Natural Look": Extreme Makeovers and the Limits of Self-Fashioning8 Selling the "Perfect" Vulva; Part 3 Boundaries and Networks; 9 "Engineering the Erotic": Aesthetic Medicine and Modernization in Brazil; 10 Pygmalion's Many Faces; 11 All Cosmetic Surgery is "Ethnic": Asian Eyelids, Feminist Indignation, and the Politics of Whiteness; Part 4 Ambivalent Voices; 12 In Your Face; 13 Crossing the Cosmetic/Reconstructive Divide: The Instructive Situation of Breast Reduction Surgery; 14 Farewell My Lovelies; Index |
| Summary |
Leading feminist scholars have been brought together for the first time in this comprehensive volume to reveal the complexity of feminist engagements with the exponentially growing cosmetic surgery phenomenon. Offering a diversity of theoretical, methodological and political approaches Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer presents not only the latest, cutting-edge research in this field but a challenging and unique approach to the issue that will be of key interest to researchers across the social sciences and humanities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspects
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Surgery, Plastic -- Psychological aspects
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Body image in women.
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Feminist theory.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
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Body image in women
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Feminist theory
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Surgery, Plastic -- Psychological aspects
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Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspects
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Plastikkirurgi -- sociala aspekter.
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Plastikkirurgi -- psykologiska aspekter.
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Feminism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heyes, Cressida J.
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Jones, Meredith (Meredith Rachael), 1965-
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| ISBN |
9780754693994 |
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0754693996 |
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0754676994 |
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9780754676997 |
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1317159195 |
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9781317159193 |
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1317159187 |
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9781317159186 |
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1282243411 |
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9781282243415 |
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9786612243417 |
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6612243414 |
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