Trading and Managing Stigma: Women's Accounts of Breast Implant Surgery

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 347-377

  Saxena, Preeta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

account making; body modification; breast implants; cosmetic surgery; feminism; stigma; stigma management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876975172     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241612472056     Document Type: Article

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