Cosmetic Surgery : A Feminist Primer
Cressida J. Heyes
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2009.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (276 p.)
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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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Emner | Body image in women
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) Feminist theory Surgery, Plastic - Psychological aspects Vis mer... Surgery, Plastic - Social aspects
Beauty Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Body Image Disciplines and Occupations Esthetics Ethics Feminism Health Occupations Humanism Humanities Medicine Mental Processes Named Groups Perception Personality Personality Development Persons Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology Psychological Phenomena and Processes Self Concept Specialties, Surgical Thinking Women Health & Biological Sciences Plastic Surgery Surgery & Anesthesiology kvinner kropp kosmetisk kirurgi skjønnhet kroppsbilder identitet feministisk teori |
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ISBN | 9780754676997
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