Surgery Junkies

Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Despite the increasing prevalence of cosmetic surgery, there are still those who identify individuals who opt for bodily modifications as dupes of beauty culture, as being in conflict with feminist ideals, or as having some form of psychological weakness. In this ground-breaking book, Victoria Pitts-Taylor examines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable or even beneficial and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. Drawing on years of research, in-depth interviews with surgeons and psychiatrists, analysis of newspaper articles, legal documents, and television shows, and her own personal experience with cosmetic surgery, Pitts-Taylor brings new perspectives to the promotion of "extreme" makeovers on television, the medicalization of "surgery addiction," the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic. Pitts-Taylor makes a compelling argument that the experience, meanings, and motivations for cosmetic surgery are highly social and, in doing so, provides a much needed "makeover" of our cultural understanding of cosmetic surgery.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-04-25
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:283 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813540481

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Victoria Pitts-Taylor is associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification.

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Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. - Arthur W. Frank (author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of) Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. - Arthur W. Frank (author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of) Surgery Junkies...offers tremendous details about various consumers of plastic surgery. An interesting and comprehensive read. (Metapsychology) Victoria Pitts-Taylor offers a fascinating journey into the exigencies of perceived excess in Surgery Junkies. Pitts-taylor structures the book into many useful sections. It is smart and compelling and can be read with equal rigor by undergraduate and graduate students [and has] crossover appeal to a more popular audience. (Women's Studies Quarterly) Whether analyzing Extreme Makeover, 'Body Dismorphic Disorder,' or her own rhinoplasty, Pitts-Taylor makes difficult theoretical concepts clear-and clearly relevant to our lives. - Susan Bordo (author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body) Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. - Arthur W. Frank (author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness,)

Innehållsförteckning

Visible pathology and cosmetic wellnessNormal extremes: cosmetic surgery televisionMiss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debatesThe medicalization of surgery addictionThe surgery junkie as legal subjectThe self and the limits of interiority