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Making the body beautiful : a cultural history of aesthetic surgery / Sander L. Gilman.
Author
Gilman, Sander L.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Description
xxii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RD118 .G55 1999
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Subject(s)
Surgery, Plastic
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Social aspects
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History
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Body image
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History
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Manners and customs
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Summary note
"Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a "nose job" as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-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 to or need to identify."
"The book draws on an extraordinary range of sources. Gilman is as comfortable discussing Nietzsche, Yeats, and Darwin as he is grisly medical details, Michael Jackson, and Barbra Streisand's decision to keep her own nose. The book contains dozens of arresting images of people before, during, and after surgery. This is a profound, provocative, and engaging study of how humans have sought to change their lives by transforming their bodies."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-383) and index.
Contents
Judging by Appearances
What Is Aesthetic Surgery?
Why Is It Aesthetic Surgery?
Remaking the Self
"Passing"
Criminal Bodies
Gender Questions
"Before and After"
Victory over Disease
Amy and the Princess
The Syphilitic Nose
The Strange Case of Tristram Shandy
Renaissance Noses
A Cure from the Colonies
The Racial Nose
Enlightenment Noses
The Jewish Nose
Irish Noses
"Oriental" Noses-and Eyes
Black into White ill
Marks of Honor and Dishonor
Character Inscribed on the Face
Too-Jewish Ears and Noses
The Telltale Foreskin
Greek Ideals
Noses at War
Fixing Shattered Faces
Patriotic Noses and Weimar Surgery
Nazi Noses
Assimilation in the Promised Lands
Helping Jews Become Americans
The Israeli Experience
The Importance of Being Barbra
After the Nose
Erotic Bodies
Buttocks Have Meaning
Big Breasts and Bellies
Small Breasts--No Breasts?
The Wrong Body
Men with Breasts
Transsexual Surgery
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Dreams of Youth and Beauty
Beauty and Age
Post-Aesthetic Bodies
Conclusion: "Passing" as Human.
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ISBN
0691026726 ((CL ; : alk. paper))
9780691026725 ((CL ; : alk. paper))
0691070539
9780691070537
LCCN
98048423
OCLC
40311505
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