Cosmetic Surgery : A Feminist Primer


Cressida J. Heyes
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2009.
Omfang
1 online resource (276 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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. - 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.
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9780754676997

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