Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403912992)

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.

Author: S. Fraser
ISBN-10: 1403912998
ISBN-13: 9781403912992
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2003
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.40w x 0.74d