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The perfect vagina : cosmetic surgery in the twenty-first century
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The perfect vagina : cosmetic surgery in the twenty-first century

by Lindy McDougall

This ethnographic study examines female genital cosmetic surgery in Australia, exploring the motivations of patients and the role of physicians. It analyses how Western beauty standards and commercial interests influence the medicalisation of normal physical variation.

Accession 17155 ISBN 9780253056115 Publisher Indiana University Press
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