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Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences
Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery
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About this book
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 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.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice: The Case of Madame Noël
- 2 Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods: Medical Stories, Masculine Stories
- 3 The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery: Luxury or Welfare
- 4 Surgical Stories: Constructing the Body, Constructing the Self
- 5 Surgical Passing: Why Michael Jackson’s Nose Makes “Us” Uneasy
- 6 “My Body Is My Art”: Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?
- 7 “A Dubious Equality”: Men, Women, and Cosmetic Surgery
- Epilogue
- References
- About the Author