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1013703
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b768073
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Cosmetic surgery : : a feminist primer /\ [edited by] Cressida J. Heyes and Meredith Jones.
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Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate Pub.,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0754676994
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: 0754693996
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: 1317159187
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: 1317159195
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: 9780754676997
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: 9780754693994
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: 9781282243415
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: 9781317159186
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: 9781317159193
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: 9786612243417
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9780754676997
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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
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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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| Abstract
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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 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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Body image in women.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Feminist theory.
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Surgery, Plastic-- Psychological aspects.
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Surgery, Plastic-- Social aspects.
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Body image in women.
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL-- Diseases.
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MEDICAL-- Health Care Delivery.
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MEDICAL-- Health Policy.
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MEDICAL-- Public Health.
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Plastikkirurgi-- psykologiska aspekter.
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Plastikkirurgi-- sociala aspekter.
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Surgery, Plastic-- Psychological aspects.
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Surgery, Plastic-- Social aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.197/95
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| LC Classification
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RD119.C682 2009eb
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| Added Entry
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Heyes, Cressida J.
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Jones, Meredith, (Meredith Rachael),1965-
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