Cosmetic surgery in the age of gender

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Heyes, Cressida J ^a   Jones, Meredith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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