Cosmetic surgery : a feminist primer

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Cosmetic surgery : a feminist primer

edited by Cressida J. Heyes, Meredith Jones

Ashgate, c2009

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Cosmetic Surgery in the Age of Gender, CressidaJ. Heyes, MeredithJones
  • Part 1 Revisiting Feminist Critique
  • Chapter 2 Twenty Years in the Twilight Zone, SusanBordo
  • Chapter 3 Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery:, KathyDavis
  • Chapter 4 Women and the Knife:, KathrynPauly Morgan
  • Chapter 5 Scary Women:, VivianSobchack
  • Part 2 Representing Cosmetic Surgery
  • Chapter 6 Agency Made Over? Cosmetic Surgery and Femininity in Women's Magazines and Makeover Television, SuzanneFraser
  • Chapter 7 The "Natural Look", DennisWeiss, RebeccaKukla
  • Chapter 8 Selling the "Perfect" Vulva, VirginiaBraun
  • Part 3 Boundaries and Networks
  • Chapter 9 "Engineering the Erotic", AlexanderEdmonds
  • Chapter 10 Pygmalion's Many Faces, MeredithJones
  • Chapter 11 All Cosmetic Surgery is "Ethnic", CressidaJ. Heyes
  • Part 4 Ambivalent Voices
  • Chapter 12 In Your Face, CindyPatton, JohnLiesch
  • Chapter 13 Crossing the Cosmetic/Reconstructive Divide, DianeNaugler
  • Chapter 14 Farewell My Lovelies, DianaSweeney

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