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Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery
ISBN-13: 9780415906326 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str.
Cosmetic surgery is the fastest growing medical speciality in both the USA and western Europe. The surgical fix belongs to the growing arsenal of practices and technologies which are aimed at transforming the female body for the sake of beauty. Despite its increasing popularity, cosmetic surgery is controversial. It raises the question of why women are willing to put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, expensive, risky and often leave them in worse shape than they were before. It attempts to make sense of women's involvement in cosmetic surgery. Whereas traditional explanations have tended to look to female narcissism, lack of self-esteem and susceptibility to the lures of consumer capitalism and myths of eternal youth or perfect beauty, Kathy Davis situates cosmetic surgery in a feminist analysis of the cultural constraints of femininity. At the same time, however, she argues against the notion that women who have cosmetic surgery are victims of ideological manipulation, blindly complying with cultural definitions of feminine beauty. Cosmetic surgery is less about beauty than about being ordinary.
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