A review by ihre_hasistaet
The Girl Who Was Plugged In/Screwtop by Vonda N. McIntyre, James Tiptree Jr.

4.0

A novella (depending on the edition about 50 pages long) set in a cyberpunk world where advertising is prohibited. Corporations use celebrities for product placement, but as "real" humans are too unpredictable, they grow themselves perfectly beautiful brainless celebrity-bodies. P. Burke, a deformed, ugly, suicidal girl who lives in the gutter is offered to be the remote control for the body of new celebrity "Delphi". She gladly accepts.

A story about the power of the media, how corporations control our decision, a person's worth in society, female embodiment and gender roles.

Unbelievably this story is from 1973, it could easily be contemporary.