Reshaping... looks at women's involvement in cosmetic surgery and raises the question of why women put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, risky and expensive and often leave them in worse shape than before.
"well-written analysis...powerful...fascinating...will intrigue medical sociologists and feminists alike." -- European Journal of Women's Studies
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1 Introduction: Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Dilemma; Chapter 2 The Rise of the Surgical Fix; Chapter 3 Beauty and the Female Body; Chapter 4 Public Face/Private Suffering; Chapter 5 From Objectified Body to Embodied Subject; Chapter 6 Decisions and Deliberations; Chapter 7 Choice and Informed Consent Revisited; Chapter 8 Facing the Dilemma;
