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What effect does the increasing trend of plastic surgery have on what we perceive as attractive?
The normalisation of cosmetic surgery and the idealised feminine body it produces have drawn considerable attention to the practice, especially from feminist academics. The resulting literature is large and nuanced, but one of its common findings is that women who’ve had cosmetic surgery often explain their desire for it in terms of looking like their ‘true’ selves – i.e. the (younger, more feminine, fitter and so on) people they really believe they are. In this talk, though, Professor Debra Gimlin will be discussing an exception to this trend – namely, the increasing tendency over time for women to describe as beautiful breasts that are obviously augmented (or ‘too good to be real’). She'll describe the ways that women express this desire and hopefully engage you in thinking through the reasons for ‘emerging aesthetics of artificiality’.
Part of the Festival of Social Science. For more information about the Festival please see:
Admission free, booking required.
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- Speaker
- Professor Debra Gimlin
- Venue
- Committee Room, Aberdeen Central Library
- Contact
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01224 273689