Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 90-106

  Holliday, Ruth ^a   Bell, David ^b   Jones, Meredith ^c   Hardy, Kate ^a   Hunter, Emily ^c   Probyn, Elspeth ^d   Taylor, Jacqueline Sanchez ^e  

^a Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Hawke Research Institute   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bodies; cosmetic surgery; globalization; health tourism; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922263363     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2013.832655     Document Type: Article

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