Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture

Informationen zum Autor SUZANNE FRASER is a research fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales. She has a PhD in Gender Studies, and has published in the areas of health, feminism and cosmetic surgery. Klappentext Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go 'under the knife'. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gender, and in the process, it questions contemporary cultural studies assumptions about how we read the media. Zusammenfassung Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go 'under the knife'. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gender, and in the process, it questions contemporary cultural studies assumptions about how we read the media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART 1: TOOLS Toolkit for a Modest Witness Pressures of the Text: Intertextuality and Preferred Readings PART 2: DISCOURSES Women's Magazines: Glossing Femininity Feminist Imaginary Bodies The 'Art' of Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Metaphor and Meaning The Regulation of Gender: Cosmetic Surgery, Regulatory Processes and Femininity Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: S Fraser, S. Fraser, Suzanne Fraser
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781349511600
• ISBN: 978-1-349-51160-0
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Soziologie, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Plastische und Rekonstruktionschirurgie, plastic surgery, Anthropology, Sociology, general, Plastic & reconstructive surgery, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects