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Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1409469441
ISBN13: 9781409469445
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 28 2013
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from popular culture, including internationally-screened reality-television, entertainment programs and documentaries, this book examines the ways in which Western media capitalize on body anxiety by presenting physical perfection as a moral imperative, while advertising quick and effective transformation methods to erase physical imperfections.

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