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