"A fresh, smart, insightful, entertaining, and compelling book about a topic--cosmetic surgery--that many of us thought had self-combusted in the 1990s amid irresolvable debates about whether women who wanted bigger breasts were subjects with agency or duped victims of the 'beauty myth.' "Pretty Modern" rises from the ashes of those debates to provide us with exciting new ways of thinking about what plastic surgery is, what it means, and what it does. It is first-rate anthropology and a wonderfully perceptive study of Brazil."--Don Kulick, author of "Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes"…mehr
"A fresh, smart, insightful, entertaining, and compelling book about a topic--cosmetic surgery--that many of us thought had self-combusted in the 1990s amid irresolvable debates about whether women who wanted bigger breasts were subjects with agency or duped victims of the 'beauty myth.' "Pretty Modern" rises from the ashes of those debates to provide us with exciting new ways of thinking about what plastic surgery is, what it means, and what it does. It is first-rate anthropology and a wonderfully perceptive study of Brazil."--Don Kulick, author of "Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes"
Illustrations viii Introduction. In the Universe of Beauty 1 Part One. The Self-Esteem in Each Ego Awakens Siliconadas 37 The Philosopher of Plástica 47 Without Tits There Is No Paradise 57 A Brief History of Self-Esteem 75 Hospital School 89 The Right to Beauty 102 Aesthetic Health 114 Part Two. Beautiful People Preta 123 Magnificent Miscegenation 127 The National Passion 135 Nanci's Rhinoplasty 143 My Black Is My Brand 150 Role Models 162 The Economy of Appearances 167 Part Three. Engineering the Erotic Creating and Modeling Nature 177 Aesthetic Medicine and Motherhood 183 The Vanity of Maids 195 Lens of Dreams 204 I Love Myself 219 Conclusion 239 Acknowledgments 253 Notes 257 References 269 Index 285
Illustrations viii Introduction. In the Universe of Beauty 1 Part One. The Self-Esteem in Each Ego Awakens Siliconadas 37 The Philosopher of Plástica 47 Without Tits There Is No Paradise 57 A Brief History of Self-Esteem 75 Hospital School 89 The Right to Beauty 102 Aesthetic Health 114 Part Two. Beautiful People Preta 123 Magnificent Miscegenation 127 The National Passion 135 Nanci's Rhinoplasty 143 My Black Is My Brand 150 Role Models 162 The Economy of Appearances 167 Part Three. Engineering the Erotic Creating and Modeling Nature 177 Aesthetic Medicine and Motherhood 183 The Vanity of Maids 195 Lens of Dreams 204 I Love Myself 219 Conclusion 239 Acknowledgments 253 Notes 257 References 269 Index 285
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