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Venus envy : a history of cosmetic surgery / Elizabeth Haiken.

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In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present. Drawing on a wide array of sources - personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides - Haiken reveals how our culture came...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Haiken, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects > United States.
Surgery, Plastic > United States > History.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > United States.
Surgery, Plastic > United States > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States.
Beauty, Personal > United States > Public opinion.
Cosmetic Techniques > United States > History.
Beauty > United States.
Public Opinion > United States.
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures > United States > History.
Beauty, Personal > Public opinion.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects.
Public opinion.
Surgery, Plastic.
Surgery, Plastic > Public opinion.
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Present at the Re-Creation
  • 1. Plastic Surgery Before and After
  • 2. The Specialty Takes Shape
  • 3. Consumer Culture and the Inferiority Complex
  • 4. The Lifting of the Middle Class: Aging in Post-World War II America
  • 5. The Michael Jackson Factor: Race, Ethnicity, and Cosmetic Surgery
  • 6. Beauty and the Breast
  • Epilogue: The Eye of the Beholder.

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