Revisiting feminist debates on cosmetic surgery: Some reflections on suffering, agency, and embodied difference

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-47

  Davis, Kathy ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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