Buying Beauty

Buying BeautyCosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who have undergone cosmetic surgery, illuminating the aspirations behind their

The book's chapters are structured chronologically

alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field

fashionable notions of interdisciplinarity and hybridizations of science and art

spreading into the cities

such as buying a slave and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned together with her husband

Included within are translations from the Greek of Homer and Plato

however during the better than average seasons it also offers opportunities for intensification and higher profits

This new edition will continue to be of keen interest to clinical psychiatrists as well as graduate students

he argues that the manner of an artwork's coming into being and one's experience of it constitutes an integral whole

inheritance in psychoanalysis is a paradox

the contributors adopt a constructive but critical perspective on the use of IT in English language education

as well as more contemporary writers such as Nicolas Abraham