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 considers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742514218
• ISBN13: 9780742514218
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"