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Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Sander L. Gilman (Author) "IN A WORLD in which we are judged by how we appear, the belief that we can change our appearance is liberating ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (20 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0691026726
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691026725
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.2 x 3.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Gilman tells a timely, yet previously largely untold tale. By presenting the complex interaction of ideas, social relations, technology, psychiatry (and the madness of doctors as well as patients), the author makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of our times.

Kathy Davis, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
It is a 'must' for anyone concerned with our present cultural obsession with beauty and the makability of the body.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cultural History at its Best, 15 Feb 2002
This review is from: Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (Paperback)
Oh, look: another fantasticaly readable and informative book from Sander Gilman. Who'd have thought it? As usual, Gilamn casts his ironic eye over past cultural constructions of the human body, narrating this tale of aesthetic surgery with a quizzical wit and a deployment of his old analytical favourites (Freud and race theories)which he never allows to obscure his central line of argument: how do we 'pass' as humans? He suggests that it is culture that produces bodily norms and that (after Judith Butler, perhaps?) we are all in some way induced to act up to these prescriptions. In its most extreme form, this role-play becomes inscribed upon the flesh of our very bodies: cosmetic (or, as he has it, 'aesthetic') surgery. Get ready then for a grotesque cavalcade of syphillitic noses; designer vaginas; prosthetic penises; boob-jobs and liposuction. Gilman draws on a wide range of sources in popular culture and (thankfully) makes only basic reference to the institutional medical science behind the specialities -this is more about *why* we undergo aesthetic surgery and how society/culture views it than the actual procedures and medical advances themselves. Read in conjunction with Elizabeth Haiken's "Venus Envy" this book provides a fabulous overview of the culturalproduction of bodily norms.
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