Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border
wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the …

" Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that
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Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search
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Taking as its starting point the significant role of the photograph in modern mourning
practices—particularly those surrounding public figures—Dead Matter theorizes the …

Just as the nation is imagined and produced through everyday rhetoric and maps and flags,
it is also constructed on the skin, and through bodies, by different types of corporealflagging' …

A type of implant was surrounded by an outer layer of cortisone-impregnated foam, an
innovation designed to prevent the formation of scar tissue. When scar tissue contracts …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book seeks to gather together and represent the existing field …

Surgeries inevitably raise questions of bodily integrity: how the post-surgical body reframes
(or does not reframe) its experiences of functionality to incorporate new features …

This article traces some of the relations between cosmetic surgery and fashion, arguing that
they both operate inside a cultural aesthetic where two-dimensional images intertwine with …

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