Media and the rhetoric of body perfection : cosmetic surgery, weight loss and beauty in popular culture / by Deborah Harris-Moore.

  • Harris-Moore, Deborah.
Date:
[2014]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]

Physical description

xxiii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Survival of the fittest -- Mass media and the perfection market -- Reality television transformation -- Fabricating fatness and tranformation in cinema -- Gaining and losing in real-life transformation -- Resistant bodies and the politics of perfection.

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    History of Medicine
    VN.U
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ISBN

  • 9781409469445
  • 1409469441
  • 140946945X
  • 9781409469452
  • 1409469468
  • 9781409469469