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Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of “makeover culture” can be understood as a process of both abjection (ridding ourselves of the unwanted) and identification (joining the community of what Julia Kristeva calls “clea

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Author

Deborah Caslav Covino

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781423740261

Category

social science

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Women'S Studies

Updated

2026-03-25