Cover -- SURFACE IMAGINATIONS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Making Introductions -- 1 Surface Imaginations -- 2 From the Quest for Recognition to Surface Imagination Surgery -- 3 The Photograph as Reminder, Evidence, and Promise -- 4 The Feminine Skin as Anxious Archipelago -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviewees -- A Note on the Cover -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
A meditation on why surfaces are so profound in the contemporary culture of cosmetic surgery.