Research Catalog
Beauty, women's bodies and the law : performances in plastic
- Title
- Beauty, women's bodies and the law : performances in plastic / Jocelynne A. Scutt.
- Author
- Scutt, Jocelynne A.
- Publication
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-1106 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vi, 397 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "What makes a woman's body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women's bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women's bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is 'really' what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social expectations play in women's decision-making. Taking a legal perspective on the vast range of 'beauty' interventions available to women, Scutt discusses women's perceptions of body and beauty, pressures on women to conform to 'idealised' notions of the perfect woman's body, and outcomes of legal actions including those taken by individual women who are unhappy with results, as well as those launched against companies trading in products advertised as safe and for women's benefit."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The body plastic -- The body beneath the knife -- Above the shoulder blades -- All above the waist -- Below the belt and under the waist ... -- Our rounded bits ... -- Extremities : from the tips of her fingers to the tips of her toes -- Conclusion: Beyond the body ....
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1106
- ISBN
- 9783030279974
- 3030279979
- LCCN
- 9783030279974
- OCLC
- 1197808740
- Author
- Scutt, Jocelynne A., author.
- Title
- Beauty, women's bodies and the law : performances in plastic / Jocelynne A. Scutt.
- Publisher
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783030279981
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783030279974
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1106