Beauty, Women's Bodies and the Law: Performances in Plastic

The book explores the legal aspects of plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, and non-surgical interventions like Botox, discussing whether these procedures are legal and the impact of consent determinations on women's ability to seek body changes. It also examines women's perceptions of body and beauty, pressures to conform to idealized notions, and legal actions taken by individuals and companies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 397 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are reshaping women's bodies physically and influencing cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. However, where does the law stand? Is body renovation legal for women? This book delves into a range of topics, including:

- Whether women genuinely desire shape-changing through surgical and non-surgical means.
- The legal implications when operations, injections, and other methods go awry.
- The impact of consent determinations on whether women can freely seek body structure changes.
- The role of culture and social expectations in shaping women's decision-making regarding beauty interventions.

By taking a legal perspective on the diverse range of "beauty interventions" available to women, Scutt examines women's perceptions of body and beauty, the pressures to conform to idealized notions of the perfect woman's body, and the outcomes of legal actions, including those taken by individual women dissatisfied with the results and those launched against companies advertising products as safe and beneficial for women.

Beauty, Women's Bodies, and the Law will captivate readers with interests in women's and gender studies, law, and cultural studies.

Weight: 528g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030280000
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020