Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 1-19

3. Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Toolkit for a Modest Witness

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 23-40

   3. The Pressures of the Text: Intertextuality and Preferred Readings

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 41-57

4. Discourses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Glossing Femininity: Women’s Magazines

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 61-96

   3. Feminist Imaginary Bodies

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 97-121

   4. The ‘Art’ of Cosmetic Surgery: Medicine, Metaphor and Meaning

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 122-152

   5. The Regulation of Gender: Cosmetic Surgery, Regulatory Processes and Femininity

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 153-183

   6. Conclusion

      • Suzanne Fraser

      Pages 185-194

5. Back Matter

   Pages 195-243

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Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go 'under the knife'. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gender, and in the process, it questions contemporary cultural studies assumptions about how we read the media.

• cosmetic surgery
• Cultural Studies
• feminism
• gender
• surgery
• women

• National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Australia

  Suzanne Fraser

SUZANNE FRASER is a research fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales. She has a PhD in Gender Studies, and has published in the areas of health, feminism and cosmetic surgery.

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