Wegenstein, Bernadette,

The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty / Bernadette Wegenstein. - xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-218) and index.

Tracing the cosmetic gaze: from eighteenth century physiognomies to racial theories of the Third Reich -- The dark side of beauty: from convulsive beauty to makeover disfiguration -- Machinic sutures: twenty-first-century technologies beauty -- Editing women: the cosmetic gaze and cinema.

0262232677 9780262232678

2011032822


Body image--Social aspects
Aesthetics--Social aspects
Human body--Social aspects
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects

BF697.5.B63 / W4195 2012

306.4613