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Makeover Culture Makeover Culture Landscapes of Cosmetic Surgery Meredith Jones 2006 Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney I certify that this work has not been submitted for a higher degree at any other institution, and that the thesis presents original research, except where otherwise indicated. Meredith Jones, 2006 Parts of this work appear elsewhere, in different forms, in the journals Social Semiotics; Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies; Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, and in a chapter (with Zoë Sofoulis) in the book The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (Ed. Joanna Zylinska). TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................8 CHAPTER ONE - THEMES, ARGUMENTS, BASICS INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................12 MAKEOVER CULTURE..........................................................................................................15 IDEOLOGICAL COMPLEXES: CONTRADICTIONS IN MAKEOVER CULTURE.17 WHAT IS COSMETIC SURGERY? ........................................................................................21 WHERE IS COSMETIC SURGERY? ......................................................................................23 BEFORE/AFTER .......................................................................................................................25 FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON COSMETIC SURGERY..................................................28 ‘Just Say No’............................................................................................................................31 ‘I Did it For Myself’ and ‘I Just Want to be Normal’......................................................33 Feminist Cosmetic Surgery?.................................................................................................38 NATURE AND BODIES..........................................................................................................42 BECOMING.................................................................................................................................43 POSTMODERNISM...................................................................................................................45 MYTH AND MAGIC.................................................................................................................46 OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS ......................................................................................................47 Architecture of the Body ......................................................................................................47 Makeover’s Materialities ......................................................................................................47 Stretched Middle Age ...........................................................................................................48 Makeover’s Monstrous Mistakes........................................................................................48 Anaesthetics and Death.......................................................................................................49 Extreme Practitioners............................................................................................................49 Fractal, Collaged Bodies ......................................................................................................50 CHAPTER TWO - MAKEOVER SPACES, MAKEOVER CITIZENS WHY ARCHITECTURE? .........................................................................................................52 BEFORE/AFTER AND JAMESON’S BONAVENTURA ................................................53 Entrances and Orifices .........................................................................................................54 Façades and Faces.................................................................................................................55 Gravity-Defying Elevators and Face Lifts .......................................................................56 ARCHITECTURE OF THE BODY.........................................................................................58 A Marriage Made in Melbourne..........................................................................................60 MAKEOVER CULTURE AND EXTREME MAKEOVER................................................63 Worthy Citizens .....................................................................................................................64 Screens and Public Bodies ...................................................................................................65 Banishing Vanity ....................................................................................................................67 Labour Revealed ....................................................................................................................68 Little Pedagogies....................................................................................................................69 Magic Reinstated....................................................................................................................71 Transformation and Makeover...........................................................................................72 Pleasure and Pain..................................................................................................................73 CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................74 CHAPTER THREE - MORPHING INDUSTRIES AGENCY IN THE MAKEOVER NETWORK .....................................................................77 COSMETIC SURGEONS AND PLASTIC SURGEONS ...................................................78 PYGMALION'S MANY FACES..............................................................................................81 Spitzack’s Confession and Surgeon as Lover..................................................................82 Surgeon as Slasher .................................................................................................................85 Pygmalion Becoming Galatea ..............................................................................................87 Surgeon as Artist, Patient as Impostor.............................................................................90 ANOTHER IMPOSTOR: BOTOX® .......................................................................................95 My Labor, and My Leisure Too..........................................................................................97 THE PATRIARCHY, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD CHAT.......................99 OPENING BLACK BOXES................................................................................................... 101 CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................ 104 CHAPTER FOUR - THE STRETCHED MIDDLE AGE INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 107 YOUTH AND OLD AGE ..................................................................................................... 107 STRETCHED MIDDLE AGE ............................................................................................... 110 TEMPORALITY AND DURÉE ........................................................................................... 113 DESIGNING – NOT DENYING – AGEING ..................................................................... 115 Better, Not Younger............................................................................................................ 116 Growing Old Gracefully..................................................................................................... 118 Special Circumstances ....................................................................................................... 119 Balancing the Body............................................................................................................. 120 No Excuse for Looking Old .............................................................................................. 122 MUTTON CUT UP AS LAMB............................................................................................ 123 Mothers’ and Daughters’ Age Old Problem.................................................................. 124 JOCASTAN POWER.............................................................................................................. 128 IMMANENT CHANGE......................................................................................................... 132 CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................ 133 CHAPTER FIVE - MAKEOVER MISDEMEANOURS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 137 MONSTROSITY, ABJECTION AND HYBRIDITY.......................................................... 137 MAKEOVER’S PROPER ABJECTION AND HYBRIDITY............................................ 139 CELEBRITIES AND TWO-FACED
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