Cosmetic Surgery

Cressida J. Heyes is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada. Meredith Jones is a Lecturer at the Institute for Interactive Media at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Chapter 1 Cosmetic Surgery in the Age of Gender, CressidaJ. Heyes, MeredithJones; Part 1 Revisiting Feminist Critique; Chapter 2 Twenty Years in the Twilight Zone, SusanBordo; Chapter 3 Revisiting Feminist Debates on Cosmetic Surgery:, KathyDavis; Chapter 4 Women and the Knife:, KathrynPauly Morgan; Chapter 5 Scary Women:, VivianSobchack; Part 2 Representing Cosmetic Surgery; Chapter 6 Agency Made Over? Cosmetic Surgery and Femininity in Women’s Magazines and Makeover Television, SuzanneFraser; Chapter 7 The “Natural Look”, DennisWeiss, RebeccaKukla; Chapter 8 Selling the “Perfect” Vulva, VirginiaBraun; Part 3 Boundaries and Networks; Chapter 9 “Engineering the Erotic”, AlexanderEdmonds; Chapter 10 Pygmalion’s Many Faces, MeredithJones; Chapter 11 All Cosmetic Surgery is “Ethnic”, CressidaJ. Heyes; Part 4 Ambivalent Voices; Chapter 12 In Your Face, CindyPatton, JohnLiesch; Chapter 13 Crossing the Cosmetic/Reconstructive Divide, DianeNaugler; Chapter 14 Farewell My Lovelies, DianaSweeney;