Release Date: 28 January, 2003
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Davis (women's studies and humanities, Utrecht U., the Netherlands) presents eight papers that investigate the intersection between culture and plastic surgery. Discussing the history of cosmetic surgery, she finds it to be intertwined with the construction of masculinity, but in another essay finds the activities of one early female practitioner to be performing surgery in a feminist voice. She also describes the narratives that surgery patients tell about their own bodies, explores the case of Michael Jackson as evidence of the racialized underpinnings of cosmetic surgery, and discusses the ethics of applying surgery to make Down's system children look "normal."Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Description
Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences considers how cosmetic surgery is taken up in representations of cosmetic surgery in medical discourse and in popular culture, drawing on a wide range of cultural manifestations including televised 'infotainment,' popular music, performance art, surgeon biographies, stories of patients, public debates, and medical texts. Davis critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference. Rating
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