Pretty Modern
Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5773378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Edmonds (0009-0002-6730-6023, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 316 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Pretty Modern (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/9780822393115 |
| OpenAlex | W4248315155 |
| Open Library | OL29605187M |
| ISBN | 9780822393115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 107 |
Race
Beauty, Race, and Power
Structural injustice and the Requirements of Beauty
Beyond ‘heightism’ and ‘height premium’
Imagining Sect and Class Through Cosmetic Surgery
Between History and Coincidence
Ethnography in Late Industrialism
Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain’t
Dying Worlds
Feeling Historical
From Village to Precarious Anthropology
Conclusion
Kinship by Other Means
Translating obesity
How culture shapes the body
Bodies and desires on the internet
Aging in the Biosocial Order
Sexual Incitement, Spectatorship and Economic Liberalization in Contemporary India
Obese, Fat, or "Just Big"? Young Adult Deployment of and Reactions to Weight Terms
‘Aquí viene una Veneca más’
Shame, Blame, and Status Incongruity
Beauty
Incommensurability, fat and obesity
The Dubious Enhancement
Epistemic conflicts and Achilles’ heels
Tweakments
Aesthetic Labor for the Sociologies of Work, Gender, and Beauty
Latina bodies in the era of elective aesthetic surgery
Bikinis and Bandages
Enhancement, ethics and society
The massifying consumption of embodied goods in an advanced capitalist state
Orientalist obsessions
Playing with identity
When breast is not best – young women and breast reduction surgery
Sexualising the Body
Transitioning Thailand
Beautiful face, beautiful place
Translation and Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Broad Conceptualization of Beauty Scale With Brazilian Women
The anxious production of beauty
Estudios sociales sobre el consumo. Trayectorias disciplinares de un campo de estudio en construcción
Reflecting on the legacy of Brazilian slavery and reimaging Afro‐Brazilian agency
Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon
Transformative Possibilities
Compositing the body
Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics
Cosmetic Surgery
FromSuperwomantoFake Blonde
Reclaiming beauty
Aesthetic Citizenship in Istanbul
Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador
Reducing the scale? From global images to border crossings in medical tourism
Reconfiguring Breast Reconstruction in the Post-Cancer Life in Vietnam
Pricing the Priceless Surgery
Aesthetic citizenship, beauty politics and the state
Chinese women constructing and negotiating an 'ideal' beauty in Lisbon, or how women and aesthetical medical practitioners materialise 'race
Affective sex
A beleza abre portas
Beauty, race and feminist theory in Latin America and the Caribbean
The biological subject of aesthetic medicine
Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment
The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities
Beauty and Elegance
Transformations télévisuelles
Towards a carnal anthropology
Embodied Inequality
Cultural and Cosmopolitan
Piety, Glamour, and Protest
Political Economy of Embodiment
The reconfiguration of mestizaje and whiteness in the diaspora
Erotic senses
Fat Is All My Fault
Interventive Care
Can Medicine Be Aesthetic
Celebratory Socialism
Uma cultura atrasada
Racial Malleability and the Sensory Regime of Politically Conscious Brazilian Hip Hop
Scars of Nation
Genuinely made up
Anthropology and complicated people
Operating (for) legitimacy
Refusing cesarean sections to protect fertile futures
Psicoeducaciónin the land of magical thoughts
The judicialization of biopolitics
Tentacular Faces
Looking Good" and "Good Looking" in School
Ambiguous noses and feminine affectations
Genres of waiting
Geographies of Capital and Capital of Geographies
Cultural Models ofRaça
Almost Invisible Scars
Third age fitness
Not 'Taking the Easy Way Out
Medical borderlands
Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty
In Attention to Pain
Vivência Negra
Aesthetics Politics
Fat as Productive
Normal/Modern
Translating Population Difference
| Unique citing works | 107 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |