Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0742514218
ISBN-13 : 9780742514218
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Book Synopsis Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences by : Kathy Davis

Download or read book Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences written by Kathy Davis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Davis explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. She critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference.


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