TY  - BOOK
AU  - Covino,Deborah Caslav
TI  - Amending the abject body: aesthetic makeovers in medicine and culture 
T2  - SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SN  - 0791462315
AV  - BF697.5.B63 C67 2004
U1  - 306.4613 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Body image in women
KW  - Self-perception in women
KW  - Women
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Surgery, Plastic
KW  - Feminist theory
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-148) and index; Ch. 1; Abjection --; Ch. 2; Normalizing the body --; Ch. 3; Outside-in --; Ch. 4; "I'm doing it for me" --; Ch. 5; Making over abjection
N2  - "Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of "makeover culture" can be understood as a process of both abjection (ridding ourselves of the unwanted) and identification (joining the community of what Julia Kristeva calls "clean and proper bodies"). Drawing from the advertisement and advocacy of body makeovers on television, in aesthetic surgery trade books, and in the print and Web-based marketing of face lifts, tummy tucks, and Botox injections, Deborah Caslav Covino articulates the relationship among objectification, abjection, and identification, and offers a fuller understanding of contemporary beauty-desire."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -