Cosmetic Surgery

Leading feminist scholars have been brought together for the first time in this comprehensive volume to reveal the complexity of feminist engagements with the exponentially growing cosmetic surgery phenomenon. Offering a diversity of theoretical, methodological and political approaches Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer presents not only the latest, cutting-edge research in this field but a challenging and unique approach to the issue that will be of key interest to researchers across the social sciences and humanities.

Chapter 1 Cosmetic Surgery in the Age of Gender, CressidaJ. Heyes, MeredithJones; Part 1 Revisiting Feminist Critique; Chapter 2 Twenty Years in the Twilight Zone, SusanBordo; Chapter 3 Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery:, KathyDavis; Chapter 4 Women and the Knife:, KathrynPauly Morgan; Chapter 5 Scary Women:, VivianSobchack; Part 2 Representing Cosmetic Surgery; Chapter 6 Agency Made Over? Cosmetic Surgery and Femininity in Women's Magazines and Makeover Television, SuzanneFraser; Chapter 7 The "Natural Look", DennisWeiss, RebeccaKukla; Chapter 8 Selling the "Perfect" Vulva, VirginiaBraun; Part 3 Boundaries and Networks; Chapter 9 "Engineering the Erotic", AlexanderEdmonds; Chapter 10 Pygmalion's Many Faces, MeredithJones; Chapter 11 All Cosmetic Surgery is "Ethnic", CressidaJ. Heyes; Part 4 Ambivalent Voices; Chapter 12 In Your Face, CindyPatton, JohnLiesch; Chapter 13 Crossing the Cosmetic/Reconstructive Divide, DianeNaugler; Chapter 14 Farewell My Lovelies, DianaSweeney;