The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty

The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty / Bernadette Wegenstein.

If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the...

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Main Author: Wegenstein, Bernadette (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Body image > Social aspects.
Aesthetics > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Aesthetics > Social aspects
Body image > Social aspects
Human body > Social aspects
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects
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