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Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery
by Kathy Davis
In Reshaping The Female Body, Kathy Davis argues that cosmetic surgery is less about the beauty system than about how women manipulate the beauty system to meet their own needs. While analyzing cosmetic surgery from a feminist standpoint, she claims that women who opt for
"the surgical fix" are not necessarily victims of ideological manipulation, and she
draws on actual interviews with women patients to show that cosmetic surgery is a
dilemma: both symptom and solution, oppression an liberation, all in one.
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