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CULT 201
Dear 201 students,
you could take a look at http://www.culturalstudies.net/ if you are stuck for essay ideas
ESSAY EXTENSION FOR SOME OF YOU
If you are doing a question on identity, which involves looking at masculinity and femininity, you have permission to hand in your essay in week 11, Friday 12 noon. This will give you a chance to attend the lectures on identity, masculinity and femininity. Also please check the course web pages for links and extra reading on identity. Below are some additional sources of material on plastic surgery
HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY HANDOUT
Also, if you missed week seven where I went through how to write an essay,
you should make sure you read the essay
writing handout before you begin.
A note on attendance.
We expect full attendance on all your courses, this is one of your course
courses so is especially important. We also expect you to pull your weight
in the seminars, by undertaking reading, preparing presentations etc.
Well Done to those of you who have worked hard, will the rest of you,
particuarly the Thursday seminar groups, please pull your socks up.
Plastic Surgery/Interpellation
Davis, Kathy. Reshaping the female body 1995 Book
article
Balsamo, Anne. 1992. On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technological
Production of the Gendered Body. Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism
and Film Theory 28 (Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science): 207-238.
Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
by Kathy Peiss
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
by Carl Elliott (Introduction)
Cosmetic Surgery: The Cutting Edge of Commercial Medicine in America
by Deborah A. Sullivan
Balsamo, Anne, "On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and the Technical
Production of the Gendered Body", Camera Obscura 28: 206-237 (1992)
Bordo, Susan, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
David, Kathy. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (New York: Routledge, 1995)
Gilman, Sander L. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (University of California Press, June 1999).
Hausman, Bernice. Chapter 2, "Plastic Ideologies and Plastic Transforma-tions", pp. 49-71 in Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995).
Hubbard, Ruth, The Politics of Women's Biology (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990).
Jacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Sally Shuttleworth, eds. Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science (New York and London: Routledge, 1990).
Morgan, Kathryn Pauly, "Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies," Hypatia 6: 25-53 (1991).
Strauss, Ronald, "Surgery, Activism, and Aesthetics: A Sociological Perspective on Treating Facial Disfigurements", in G. William Lucker, Katherine
the first book listed is in the library you will need to search for the rest in journals etc, if you need inter-lib loan Ican sign the card for you.
(There is a lot written about an ARTIST called ORLAN whose 'art' is self-transformation through surgery, you might want to look her up. I haven't found much on men and plastic surgery, so those of you writing about this will be breaking new ground!)
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2003/4 to include evening seminar series on
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MEDIA THEORY
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contact me or adrian mackenzie a.mackenzie@lancaster.ac.uk
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- r.rushton@lancaster.ac.uk and
- Bruce Bennett, b.bennett@lancaster.ac.uk.
- see also:
- Institute for Women's Studies Forthcoming Seminars
- Sociology Research Pages, Research News and Events
