American plastic
Subtitle: boob jobs, credit cards, and the quest for perfection
By: Laurie Essig.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780807000557
Subjects: Credit cards -- United States; Credit -- United States
Description: " ... Shows how the plastic surgery industry merged with the plastic money industry to finance our quest for bodily perfection."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A short history of plastic"; title: "The state of plastic"; title: "Plastic people and their doctors"; title: "Learning to be plastic : magazines, TV, and other cultural scripts"; title: "The mirror and the porn star : ideal forms, cosmetic surgery, and everyday aesthetics" : "broken plastic"; title: "Resistance"; title: "Is futile?".