Overview
- Looks at cases of legal proceedings against companies by women
- Explores the relevance of culture, social stigma and pressures on women
- Considers the impact of a range of procedures including stomach-banding, breast augmentation and facial reconstruction
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women’s bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is ‘really’ what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social expectations play in women’s decision-making. Taking a legal perspective on the vast range of ‘beauty’ interventions available to women, Scutt discusses women’s perceptions of body and beauty, pressures on women to conform to ‘idealised’ notions of the perfect woman’s body, and outcomes of legal actions including those taken by individual women who are unhappy with results, as well as those launched against companies trading in products advertised as safe and for women’s benefit.
Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law will appeal to readers with an interest in women’s and gender studies, law, and cultural studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jocelynne A. Scutt is Senior Teaching Fellow and formerly Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, UK, as well as a barrister, human rights lawyer, historian and filmmaker.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beauty, Women's Bodies and the Law
Book Subtitle: Performances in Plastic
Authors: Jocelynne A. Scutt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27998-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27997-4Published: 18 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28000-0Published: 18 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27998-1Published: 17 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 397
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Gender Studies, Socio-legal Studies