Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Virginia L. Blum
ISBN: | 9781422351604 |
Publisher: | Univ. of Cal. Press |
Published: | 25 June, 2003 |
Format: | Hardcover |
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Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Virginia L. Blum
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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