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Pretty modern : beauty, sex, and plastic surgery in Brazil / Alexander Edmonds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmonds, Alexander, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Surgery, Plastic.
- Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery.
- Contents:
- Siliconadas
- The philosopher of plastica
- Without tits there is no paradise
- A brief history of self-esteem
- Hospital school
- The right to beauty
- Aesthetic health
- Preta
- Magnificent miscegenation
- The national passion
- Nanci's rhinoplasty
- My Black is my brand
- Role models
- The economy of appearances
- Creating and modeling nature
- Aesthetic medicine and motherhood
- The vanity of maids
- Lens of dreams
- I love myself.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613251879
- 9780822393115
- 0822393115
- 9781283251877
- 1283251876
- OCLC:
- 709728146
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