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050		4	_aBF697.5.B63 W4195 2012
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100	1		_aWegenstein, Bernadette.
245	1	4	_aThe Cosmetic Gaze : _bBody Modification and the Construction of Beauty.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bMIT Press, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2012.
300			_a1 online resource (239 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe MIT Press Series
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Tracing the Cosmetic Gaze: From Eighteenth-Century Physiognomies to Racial Theories of the Third Reich -- The Concept of Kalókagatheia: "The Good and the Beautiful" -- Drawing an Instinctive Connection between Physical and Moral Beauty: Lavater's Physiognomy -- Lavater's Concept of Female Beauty: Devotion versus Masquerade -- Lavater's Influence on Nineteenth-Century Culture -- Darwinian Physiognomy, Eugenics, and Snapshots of Objectivity -- Excising the Deviant during the Third Reich -- The Reveal: Understanding the New Physiognomy -- 2 The Dark Side of Beauty: From Convulsive Beauty to Makeover Disfiguration -- Beauty's Irresistible Promise -- Nadja, or Beauty's Convulsiveness -- "The Birthmark" and Other Autobiographies of Ugliness -- From Visible to Invisible Monsters -- The Case of Michael Jackson and Other Makeover Beauty Victims -- The New Beauty, or the Survival of the Made Over -- 3 Machinic Sutures: Twenty-First-Century Technologies of Beauty -- The Subtly Refreshed Look of Cosmetic Surgery -- Realism: "It Could Be Me!" -- The Swan: You Must Surrender -- E-FIT, or How to Draw a Suspect -- The Sims: Build, Buy, Live -- Self-ploitation, or When the Gaze Strikes Back -- 4 Editing Women: The Cosmetic Gaze and Cinema -- Cinematic Anesthesia: Cosmetic Surgery and Film -- In My Skin and In the Cut: Two Accounts of Femininity -- Activating the Female Gaze -- The Spectator as Cocreator -- Conclusion: From the Male Gaze to the Cosmetic Gaze -- Notes -- Index.
520			_aHow the act of looking at our own and others' bodies is informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies of body modification.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aBody image-Social aspects.
650		0	_aAesthetics-Social aspects.
650		0	_aHuman body-Social aspects.
650		0	_aSurgery, Plastic-Social aspects.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aWegenstein, Bernadette _tThe Cosmetic Gaze _dCambridge : MIT Press,c2012 _z9780262232678
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		4	_aThe MIT Press Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3339411 _zClick to View
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