Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture by Deborah Caslav Covino

Amending the Abject Body: Aesthetic Makeovers in Medicine and Culture

Suny Feminist Criticism and Theory

Deborah Caslav Covino

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Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectifica...

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