Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery /
When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic Collection
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520938731 0520938739 1417510579 9781417510573 1597346160 9781597346160 |