Flesh Wounds The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery

Name: Flesh Wounds The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
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ISBN: 9780520244733

ISBN-10: 0520244737

ISBN-13: 9780520244733

Edition: 2004

Authors: Virginia Blum

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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 an essential part of our modern-day identity. For a cultural practice to develop such a tenacious grip, Blum argues, it must be fed from multiple directions: some pragmatic, including the profit…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Virginia L. Blum is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction (1995).



Acknowledgments



The Patient's Body



Untouchable Bodies



The Plastic Surgeon and the Patient: A Slow Dance



Frankenstein Gets a Face-Lift



As If Beauty



The Monster and the Movie Star



Being and Having: Celebrity Culture and the Wages of Love



Addicted to Surgery


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