Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery /
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 cu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003
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| Series: | EBSCO Academic Collection
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520938731 0520938739 1417510579 9781417510573 1597346160 9781597346160 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
