Cosmetic surgery : a feminist primer /

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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 Surg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heyes, Cressida J., Jones, Meredith (Meredith Rachael), 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2009.
Temas:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic > Psychological aspects.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Body image in women.
Feminist theory.
Chirurgie plastique > Aspect social.
Chirurgie plastique > Aspect psychologique.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
Image du corps chez la femme.
Théorie féministe.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Body image in women
Feminist theory
Surgery, Plastic > Psychological aspects
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects
Plastikkirurgi > sociala aspekter.
Plastikkirurgi > psykologiska aspekter.
Feminism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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