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The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health.



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The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with FGCS, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health.

-- Jana Byars * New Books Network *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Mandy's Story
Introduction: Vulnerable Vulvas
1. Melting Snowflakes: Toward a Clean Slit
2. Normativity and the Contradictory Nature of Normal
3. Seeking Vulval Perfection
4. Vulva Las Vegas: Science, Magic (a Gamble) or More of the Same?
5. Autonomy, Risk, Desire, and Magic
Appendices
References
Index

The Perfect Vagina

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 4 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9780253056115
      978-0253056115
      ISBN-10 025305611X
      Also in:
      Anthropology Human biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health.



      Trade Review

      The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with FGCS, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well as health.

      -- Jana Byars * New Books Network *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Prologue: Mandy's Story
      Introduction: Vulnerable Vulvas
      1. Melting Snowflakes: Toward a Clean Slit
      2. Normativity and the Contradictory Nature of Normal
      3. Seeking Vulval Perfection
      4. Vulva Las Vegas: Science, Magic (a Gamble) or More of the Same?
      5. Autonomy, Risk, Desire, and Magic
      Appendices
      References
      Index

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