Saving Face :  Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (270 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 About Face -- 2 Facial Work: Aesthetic Surgery as Lifesaving Work -- 3 Making Faces: Life Makeovers through Facial Work -- 4 Not Just Another Pretty Face: The Social Value of Unremarkability -- 5 Saving Face: Redeeming a Universal Face -- 6 Facing Off: Debating Facial Work, Constructing a "Vital" Intervention -- 7 At Face Value -- Losing Face: A Postscript -- Appendix: Methods, Methodologies, and Epistemologies -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- About the Author. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781479840052 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aesthetics-Social aspects.<br/>Disfigured persons.<br/>Physical-appearance-based bias.<br/>Face-Social aspects.<br/>Surgery, Plastic-Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1219 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.9/08