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Pretty modern : beauty, sex, and plastic surgery in Brazil /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edmonds, Alexander, 1970-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects > Brazil.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Brazil.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Siliconadas
  • The philosopher of plástica
  • Without tits there is no paradise
  • A brief history of self-esteem
  • Hospital school
  • The right to beauty
  • Aesthetic health
  • Preta
  • Magnificent miscegenation
  • The national passion
  • Nanci's rhinoplasty
  • My Black is my brand
  • Role models
  • The economy of appearances
  • Creating and modeling nature
  • Aesthetic medicine and motherhood
  • The vanity of maids
  • Lens of dreams
  • I love myself.