"Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences" explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as medical specialty at the end of the 19th century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately linked to discourses of "normalcy" as well as gender, race and other categories of difference. This link has shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Kathy Davis shows how cosmetic surgery is represented in medicine and popular culture, drawing upon a wide range of examples taken from the media, music, performance art, literature, public debates and medical texts. She uses her own uneasiness about the ubiquitous erasure of difference under the spurious banner of equality as symptomatic of the cosmetic surgery culture. Davis proposes an approach which takes embodied difference (collective and biographical), the experience of suffering, and an appreciation of individuals' capacity for agency even under less-than-perfect circumstances as starting points for thinking about the normative issues involved in cosmetic surgery.
Cosmetic surgery in a different voices; lonely heroes and great white clouds; the rhetoric of cosmetic surgery; surgical stories; surgical passing; "my body is my art"; "a dubious equality".
- ISBN:
- 9780742514201
- 9780742514201
-
Category:
- Cosmetic surgery
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
-
11-02-2003
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions (mm):
- 233x157x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.38kg
This title is in stock with our overseas supplier and should arrive at our Sydney warehouse within 3 - 5 weeks of you placing an order.
Once received into our warehouse we will despatch it to you with a Shipping Notification which includes online tracking.
Please check the estimated delivery times below for your region, for after your order is despatched from our warehouse:
ACT Metro: 2 working days
NSW Metro: 2 working days
NSW Rural: 2-3 working days
NSW Remote: 2-5 working days
NT Metro: 3-6 working days
NT Remote: 4-10 working days
QLD Metro: 2-4 working days
QLD Rural: 2-5 working days
QLD Remote: 2-7 working days
SA Metro: 2-5 working days
SA Rural: 3-6 working days
SA Remote: 3-7 working days
TAS Metro: 3-6 working days
TAS Rural: 3-6 working days
VIC Metro: 2-3 working days
VIC Rural: 2-4 working days
VIC Remote: 2-5 working days
WA Metro: 3-6 working days
WA Rural: 4-8 working days
WA Remote: 4-12 working days
Share This Book: