The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty /
Wegenstein, Bernadette.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press,
c2012.
Tracing the cosmetic gaze: from eighteenth century physiognomies to racial theories of the Third Reich -- The dark side of beauty: from convulsive beauty to makeover disfiguration -- Machinic sutures: twenty-first-century technologies beauty -- Editing women: the cosmetic gaze and cinema.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-218) and index.
Body image
Aesthetics
Human body
Surgery, Plastic