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Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, Virginia L. Blum

[ID text: Young children and adolescents receive their body images wholly from the outside. The adolescent girl, especially, enters the world tentatively and waits for it to say yes or no to her face and body. Now that my face had emerged from its childish amorphousness, it was finished enough to predict its disadvantages. Negotiating adolescence can feel like traveling in a herd of sorts, always under fire or under threat of some dangerous predator; you hope that you will escape notice. Then one day you are singled out—shut down in the field—just when ou imagined yourself safely swallowed in anonymity. end ID]