(Download pdf) Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
♛ Deborah Caslav Covino ♛
| #4517110 in Books | State Univ of New York Pr | 2004-10-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.41 x6.00l,.51 | File Name: 0791462323 | 162 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent introductory book on abjection|By Customer|The book is an excellent critique of the cosmetic surgery industry, and the way the natural female body is mediated as abjected, requiring surgical intervention to be socially acceptable. Covino examines surgery makeover television shows, the marketing language of cosmetic surgeons, and the subtle persuasion of women's m||"Looking at cosmetic surgery and, more generally, aesthetic transformations of the body through the lens of abjection is a novel approach that yields an interesting and profound understanding of the beauty culture. Covino skillfully and successfully applies t
Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.
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 objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of "makeover culture"...
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