LEADER 03649nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910461318403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49926-5 010 $a9786613594495 010 $a0-262-30111-3 024 8 $a9786613594495 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160486 035 $a(OCoLC)780444633 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10539254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611602 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12263159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611602 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10646760 035 $a(PQKB)11017295 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131122 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339411 035 $a(OCoLC)780444633$z(OCoLC)787846302$z(OCoLC)794619356$z(OCoLC)817078675$z(OCoLC)868492695$z(OCoLC)961508768$z(OCoLC)962596647$z(OCoLC)988442845$z(OCoLC)988532433$z(OCoLC)992078267$z(OCoLC)1037929254$z(OCoLC)1038659864$z(OCoLC)1055364544$z(OCoLC)1065706698$z(OCoLC)1081254439 035 $a(OCoLC-P)780444633 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7584 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539254 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359449 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160486 100 $a20110804d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe cosmetic gaze$b[electronic resource] $ebody modification and the construction of beauty /$fBernadette Wegenstein 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-23267-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIf the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily modification. It is, Wegenstein says, also a moralizing gaze, a way of looking at bodies as awaiting both physical and spiritual improvement. In The Cosmetic Gaze, Wegenstein charts this synthesis of outer and inner transformation. Wegenstein shows how the cosmetic gaze underlies the "rebirth" celebrated in today's makeover culture and how it builds upon a body concept that has collapsed into its mediality. In today's beauty discourse--on reality TV and Web sites that collect "bad plastic surgery"--We yearn to experience a bettered self that has been reborn from its own flesh and is now itself, like a digitally remastered character in a classic Hollywood movie, immortal. Wegenstein traces the cosmetic gaze from eighteenth-century ideas about physiognomy through television makeover shows and facial-recognition software to cinema--which, like our other screens, never ceases to show us our bodies as they could be, drawing life from the very cosmetic gaze it transmits. 606 $aBody image$xSocial aspects 606 $aAesthetics$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects 606 $aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBody image$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aAesthetics$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.4/613 700 $aWegenstein$b Bernadette$0625119 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461318403321 996 $aThe cosmetic gaze$92074197 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01082nam 2200349Ia 450 001 996383550503316 005 20221108104512.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000589618 035 $a(EEBO)2248512004 035 $a(OCoLC)11876278 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000589618 100 $a19850402d1682 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 10$aNew news from Tory-land and Tantivy-shire$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLondon $cPrinted for S. Norman$d1682 215 $a[2], 9 p 300 $aAscribed to Phillips by Wing. 300 $aThis item can be found at reels 505:9 and 873:3. 300 $aReproduction of originals in Bodleian Library and Huntington Library. 330 $aeebo-0113 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yCharles II, 1660-1685$vAnecdotes 700 $aPhillips$b John$f1631-1706.$01004007 801 0$bEAA 801 1$bEAA 801 2$bm/c 801 2$bUMI 801 2$bWaOLN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996383550503316 996 $aNew news from Tory-land and Tantivy-shire$92400027 997 $aUNISA