Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery - Couverture rigide

Gilman, Sander L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691026726 ISBN 13 : 9780691026725

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centres for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. The author of this text seeks to explain why by presenting a systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic sugery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a "nose job" as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in 7th-century Alexandria, Gilman argues that aesthetic surgery has such universal appeal because it helps people to "pass", to be seen as a member of a group with which they want or need to identify.;The book draws on a range of sources. Gilman discuses Nietzsche, Yeats and Darwin, grisly details, Michael Jackson and Barbara Streisand's decision to keep her own nose. It contains dozens of images of people before, during and after surgery.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago; he is also Director of the Humanities Laboratory there. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, including Seeing the Insane, Jewish Self-Hatred, The Jew's Body, Hysteria: A New History, and Freud, Race, and Gender (Princeton).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691026726
• ISBN 13: 9780691026725
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
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