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10%OFFAlexander Edmonds - Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil - 9780822348016 - V9780822348016
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Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

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Description for Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil Paperback. An ethnography that examines the culture of beauty and plastic surgery in Brazil Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, including 10 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472. Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. 312 pages, 25 illustrations, including 10 in colour. An ethnography that examines the culture of beauty and plastic surgery in Brazil. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight: 480.
Pretty Modern is a riveting account of Brazil’s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery. Intrigued by a Carnaval parade that mysteriously paid homage to a Rio de Janeiro plastic surgeon, anthropologist Alexander Edmonds conducted research that took him from Ipanema socialite circles to glitzy telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. The result is provocative exploration of the erotic, commercial, and intimate aspects of beauty in a nation with extremes of wealth and poverty and a reputation for natural sensuality. Drawing on conversations with maids and their elite mistresses, divorced housewives, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822348016
SKU
V9780822348016
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Ref
99-21

About Alexander Edmonds
Alexander Edmonds is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Reviews for Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil
“A fresh, smart, insightful, entertaining, and compelling book about a topic—cosmetic surgery—that many of us thought had self-combusted in the 1990s amid irresolvable debates about whether women who wanted bigger breasts were subjects with agency or duped victims of the ‘beauty myth.’ Pretty Modern rises from the ashes of those debates to provide us with exciting new ways of thinking ... Read more

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