Kathy Davis

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences

Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences considers how cosmetic surgery is taken up in representations of cosmetic surgery in medical discourse and in popular culture, drawing on a wide range of cultural manifestations including televised 'infotainment, ' popular music, performance art, surgeon biographies, stories of patients, public debates, and medical texts. Davis critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 149mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780742514218
• ISBN-10: 0742514218
• Artikelnr.: 21226363

Autorenporträt

By Kathy Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice
Chapter 3 Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods Chapter 4 The Rhetoric of
Cosmetic Surgery Chapter 5 Surgical Stories Chapter 6 Surgical Passing
Chapter 7 "My Body is My Art" Chapter 8 "A Dubious Equality"