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by VL Blum (Author) "My first nose job was performed by performed by an otolaryngologist (otherwise know as an ear, nose, and throat doctor) who, in concert with my..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 366 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0520217233
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520217232
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"As face lifts and tummy tucks become increasingly affordable to middle-class Americans, Blum argues, even those who have never considered the knife cannot escape cosmetic surgery's implications and its pervasive promotion by everyone from doctors to those who play them on TV." - Publishers Weekly"


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When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. From diverse viewpoints, ranging from cosmetic surgery patient to feminist cultural critic, she looks into the realities and fantasies that have made physical malleability an essential part of our modern-day identity. For a cultural practice to develop such a tenacious grip, Blum argues, it must be fed from multiple directions: some pragmatic, including the profit motive of surgeons and the increasing need to appear young on the job; some philosophical, such as the notion that a new body is something you can buy or that appearance changes your life. Flesh Wounds is an inquiry into the ideas and practices that have forged such a culture. Tying the boom in cosmetic surgery to a culture-wide trend toward celebrity, Blum explores our growing compulsion to emulate what remain for most of us two-dimensional icons. Moving between personal experiences and observations, interviews with patients and surgeons, and readings of literature and cultural moments, her book reveals the ways in which the practice of cosmetic surgery captures the condition of identity in contemporary culture.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Flesh Wounds, 17 Jun 2004
An excellent book! I read this book as part of dissertation research but a non-academic reader can also enjoy it. Blum presents a very interesting view on the world of cosmetic surgery and its impact on the individual and society. She looks at society's fascination with body transformation and from where it may have developed. She refers to variety of media works to illustrate her ideas.
Blum details the extensive research she carried out for the book and the descriptions of her observation in the operating theatres are thorough and at times unnerving!
As a former cosmetic surgery patient herself she holds the interesting position as a critical reviewer of the practice as well as a former subject.
This is an extremely well written book presenting some interesting ideas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Flesh Wounds, 17 Jun 2004
An excellent book! I read this book as part of dissertation research but a non-academic reader can also enjoy it. Blum presents a very interesting view on the world of cosmetic surgery and its impact on the individual and society. She looks at society's fascination with body transformation and from where it may have developed. She refers to variety of media works to illustrate her ideas.
Blum details the extensive research she carried out for the book and the descriptions of her observation in the operating theatres are thorough and at times unnerving!
As a former cosmetic surgery patient herself she holds the interesting position as a critical reviewer of the practice as well as a former subject.
This is an extremely well written book presenting some interesting ideas.
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