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Remedying the Body : Plastic Surgery and the Politics of Embodiment in Korea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, So-Rim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Korean.
- National characteristics, Korean.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Plastic surgery has exploded in popularity in the recent decades, with South Korea emerging as a leader of the global beauty economy.In Remedying the Body So-Rim Lee explores a cultural discourse of plastic surgery in South Korea through the feminist politics of care.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1 Diachronic Performances of Remedy
- Part 2 Through The Remedial Prism
- Epilogue My Beautiful Face
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lee, So-Rim Remedying the Body
- ISBN:
- 9781503648241
- OCLC:
- 1612972770
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