Refashioning Race

How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards

Alka Vaid Menon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38670-9 (ISBN)

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Cosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. As this surgery has become more accessible worldwide, changing beauty trends have led to a proliferation of beauty standards for members of different racial groups. Alka V. Menon enters the world of cosmetic surgeons, journeying from a sprawling convention center in Kyoto to boutique clinics in the multicultural countries of the United States and Malaysia. She shows how surgeons generate and apply knowledge using racial categories and how this process is affected by transnational clinical and economic exchanges. Surgeons not only measure and organize but also elaborate upon racial differences in a globalized field of medicine. Focusing on the role of cosmetic surgeons as gatekeepers and producers of desired appearances, Refashioning Race argues that cosmetic surgeons literally reshape race—both on patients' bodies and at the broader level of culture.

Alka V. Menon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: From Standardization to
Customization—Race in Cosmetic Surgery

PART I GLOBAL EXPERT DISCOURSE

1. Standardizing Noses in Global Cosmetic Surgery
2. Standardizing Techniques: Asian Cosmetic
Surgery and the Art and Science of Asian
Difference

PART II DISCUSSING CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE
U.S. AND MALAYSIA

3. “Looking Right”: Crafting Natural Looks in
Cosmetic Surgery
4. Race and Customization in the Market for
Cosmetic Surgery
5. Customizing Bodies: Seeing Race on the Body

Conclusion: The Art and Science of Racial
Difference in Global Cosmetic Surgery

Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	7 illustrations, 3 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-38670-1 / 0520386701
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38670-9 / 9780520386709
Zustand	Neuware