The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty /

If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the...

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Main Author:	Wegenstein, Bernadette (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Body image > Social aspects. Aesthetics > Social aspects. Human body > Social aspects. Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects. DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art CULTURAL STUDIES/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies Electronic books.
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