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9781403912992

Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9781403912992

  • ISBN10:

    1403912998

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-10-24
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go "under the knife." Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gender, and in the process, it questions contemporary cultural studies assumptions about how we read the media.

Author Biography

Suzanne Fraser is research fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1(22)
Part I Tools
Toolkit for a Modest Witness
23(18)
The Pressures of the Text: Intertextuality and Preferred Readings
41(20)
Part II Discourses
Glossing Femininity: Women's Magazines
61(36)
Feminist Imaginary Bodies
97(25)
The `Art' of Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Metaphor and Meaning
122(31)
The Regulation of Gender: Cosmetic Surgery, Regulatory Processes and Femininity
153(32)
Conclusion 185(10)
Notes 195(30)
Bibliography 225(12)
Index 237

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