Pygmalion's many faces

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 171-189

  Jones, Meredith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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