[Download ebook] American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
▲ Laurie Essig ▲
| #2203673 in Books | 2011-11-08 | 2011-11-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.26 x.72 x5.26l,.70 | File Name: 0807003239 | 248 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By Danielle Sacks|Very interesting|3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Short on analysis|By JYK|The author started with a big premise - the cosmetic surgery contributed to the collapse of the American economy - but didn't quite manage to answer it. The book was an interesting sociological observation|From Publishers Weekly|Essig, assistant professor of sociology at Middlebury College, argues that our national obsession with plastic money and plastic surgery is more than a cultural fad; it's a capitalist conspiracy engineered to persuade Americans that probl
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to "fix" ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over two hundred interviews of plastic surgeons and surgery recipients, Essig creates an unforgettable portrait of contemporary America. Ameri...
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