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Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Virginia Blum
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Description for Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
Paperback. Num Pages: 366 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: MNPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. From diverse viewpoints, ranging from cosmetic surgery patient to feminist cultural critic, she looks into the realities and fantasies that have made physical malleability an essential part of our modern-day identity. For a cultural practice to develop such a tenacious grip, Blum argues, it must be fed from ... Read more
When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. From diverse viewpoints, ranging from cosmetic surgery patient to feminist cultural critic, she looks into the realities and fantasies that have made physical malleability an essential part of our modern-day identity. For a cultural practice to develop such a tenacious grip, Blum argues, it must be fed from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
366
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520244733
SKU
V9780520244733
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About Virginia Blum
Virginia L. Blum is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction (1995).
Reviews for Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery
"As face lifts and tummy tucks become increasingly affordable to middle-class Americans, Blum argues, even those who have never considered the knife cannot escape cosmetic surgery's implications and its pervasive promotion by everyone from doctors to those who play them on TV." - Publishers Weekly"