| Description |
[iii], 149 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Summary |
This thesis explores individuals' experiences of cosmetic surgery in Melbourne. The research conducted with recipients of cosmetic surgery is a complex and ambiguous practice simultaneously encompassing pain and pleasure, agency and constraint, empowerment and conformity. By providing a more nuanced representation of people's experiences of such surgery, the thesis envisions a subjectivity that may better account for individuals' active and lived relationship to their bodies |
| Notes |
Submitted to the School of Social and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University |
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Thesis (M.A.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 137-149 |
| Subject |
Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Body image.
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| Genre/Form |
Academic theses.
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| Author |
Deakin University. Faculty of Arts.
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Deakin University. School of Social and International Studies
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