Under the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery, Boundary Work, and the Pursuit of the Natural Fake, Kwan Samantha, Graves Jennifer

Автор: Bobel Chris, Kwan Samantha
Название: Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules
ISBN: 0826517870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826517876
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body outlaws"--people from many social locations who violate norms about the private, the repellent, or the forbidden. This collection ventures beyond the conventional focus on the "disciplined body" and instead, examines conformity from the perspective of resisters. By balancing accessibly written original ethnographic research with personal narratives, Embodied Resistance provides a window into the everyday lives of those who defy or violate socially constructed body rules and conventions.

Автор: Samantha Kwan, Jennifer Graves
Название: Under the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery, Boundary Work, and the Pursuit of the Natural Fake
ISBN: 1439919321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439919323
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Most women who elect to have cosmetic surgery want a “natural” outcome—a discrete alteration of the body that appears unaltered. Under the Knife examines this theme in light of a cultural paradox. Whereas women are encouraged to improve their appearance, there is also a stigma associated with those who do so via surgery.   

Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves reveal how women negotiate their “unnatural”—but hopefully (in their view) natural-looking—surgically-altered bodies. Based on in-depth interviews with 46 women who underwent cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance, the authors investigate motivations for surgery as well as women’s thoughts about looking natural after the procedures. Under the Knife dissects the psychological and physical strategies these women use to manage the expectations, challenges, and disappointments of cosmetic surgery while also addressing issues of agency and empowerment. It shows how different cultural intersections can produce varied goals and values around body improvement.

Under the Knife highlights the role of deep-seated yet contradictory gendered meanings about women’s bodies, passing, and boundary work. The authors also consider traditional notions of femininity and normalcy that trouble women’s struggle to preserve an authentic moral self.