Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery
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Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as a medical specialty at the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately liked to discourses of 'normalcy, ' as well as to gender, race, and other categories of difference that have shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Davis considers...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0742514218
ISBN13:9780742514218
Release Date:February 2003
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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