By Jane Megan Northrop
ISBN-10: 0415521394
ISBN-13: 9780415521390
ISBN-10: 1138020109
ISBN-13: 9781138020108
Cosmetic surgical procedure represents an severe kind of glossy grooming. it's the quickest growing to be clinical distinctiveness, but misconceptions abound approximately those that adopt it and their purposes for doing so. With a grounded technique, enticing 30 girls via in-depth interview, this examine explores how they selected plastic surgery as an choice. Their bills body a theoretical dialogue, during which Northrop proposes that plastic surgery is initiated in the susceptible and divisive dating among the self and its bad physique snapshot.
Poor physique photo and the test at its reparation are tested conceptually via disgrace and narcissism. With compelling case reviews and a multi-disciplinary process, Reflecting on beauty Surgery demonstrates that disgrace constitutes a framework during which we formulate visual appeal norms and study the paintings of turning into socially embodied. disgrace issues the self, yet manifests based on perceived social phenomena. during the review and modification of physique picture with plastic surgery, notions of self and social worthiness are performed out.
Northrop argues convincingly for a assessment of ways within which we view narcissism and proposes that disgrace, and the discomforts coming up from it, are implicated in its prevalence. This e-book will attract scholars and students around the social sciences, and especially in women’s experiences and gender studies.
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