Cosmetic Surgery : A Feminist Primer.
Title:
Cosmetic Surgery : A Feminist Primer.
Author:
Heyes, Cressida J.
ISBN:
9780754693994
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Contents:
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-Fashioning -- 8 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.
Abstract:
Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds. What comprises cosmetic surgery has also changed, with a plethora of new procedures and an extraordinary rise of non-surgical operations. As the practices of cosmetic surgery have multiplied and diversified, so have feminist approaches to understanding them. For the first time leading feminist scholars including Susan Bordo, Kathy Davis, Vivian Sobchack and Kathryn Pauly Morgan, have been brought together in this comprehensive volume to reveal the complexity of feminist engagements with the phenomenon that still remains vastly more popular among women. 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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