The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Mandy's Story
Introduction: Vulnerable Vulvas
1. Melting Snowflakes: Toward a Clean Slit
2. Normativity and the Contradictory Nature of Normal
3. Seeking Vulval Perfection
4. Vulva Las Vegas: Science, Magic (a Gamble) or More of the Same?
5. Autonomy, Risk, Desire, and Magic
Appendices
References
Index