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In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present. Drawing on a wide array of sources - personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides - Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and societal problems. As Americans and their surgeons linked the significance of "normal" standards of beauty to social adjustment and economic success, they also linked "undesirable" physical characteristics to psychological conditions such…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 1999The Johns Hopkins University Press · 384 pages · 9780801862540
- Other · English · 1997Johns Hopkins University Press · 370 pages · 9780801857638
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