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Author Martin, Paula J., author

Title Suzanne Noël : cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early twentieth-century France / Paula J. Martin
Published Surrey [England] ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Series History of Medicine in Context
History of medicine in context
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 La Belle Époque: Paris, Medical School and a Young Suzanne Noël (1878-1914); 2 Personal Disasters, World War I, and "Broken Faces" (1914-1930); 3 Cosmetic Surgery: "A Boon to Women" in a French Beauty Culture; 4 Suzanne: Liberal Feminist, and Yet Politely Radical; 5 Suzanne Noël, Godmother of Soroptimist International; 6 A Female Plastic Surgeon and Innovative Pioneer; 7 Noël's Legacy: A Life Dedicated to Others; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Summary Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles, but by placing Noël in the context of turn-of-the-century French culture, this book is able to demonstrate how these two worldviews were reconciled. This book sheds much valuable light on advances in aesthetic surgery, twentieth-century beauty culture, women and the public sphere, and the 'new woman'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Noël, Suzanne, 1878-1954.
SUBJECT Noël, Suzanne, 1878-1954
Noël, Suzanne, 1878-1954 fast
Subject Surgery, Plastic -- France -- History -- 20th century
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- France -- History -- 20th century
Women physicians.
Surgery, Plastic.
Physicians, Women
Surgeons
Surgery, Plastic
Esthetics -- history
Feminism -- history
History, 20th Century
Surgery, Plastic -- history
Plastic Surgery Procedures
physicians.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Women physicians
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Feminism
Surgery, Plastic
France
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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