Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery

by Kathy Davis

Book Overview

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as a medical specialty at the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately liked to discourses of 'normalcy, ' as well as to gender, race, and other categories of difference that have shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Davis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074251420X
• ISBN13: 9780742514201
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"