Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Blum, Virginia
ISBN: | 9780520938731 |
Publisher: | Perseus - UCAL POD |
Published: | 1 October, 2003 |
Format: | ePub |
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Blum, Virginia
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. From diverse viewpoints, ranging from cosmetic surgery patient to feminist cultural critic, she looks into the realities and fantasies that have made physical malleability a
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