Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture by Deborah Covino, Michelle A. Masse

Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture

Deborah Covino, Michelle A. Masse

162 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectifica...

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