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Evaluate the post-modern discourse concerning cosmetic surgery and the ‘mask of aging’ in Western societies.
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CCS 334 MAJOR ESSAY Evaluate the post-modern discourse concerning cosmetic surgery and the 'mask of aging' in Western societies. Eliza Berkery 9934624 Tut: Thursday 3:30pm Colleen McGloin "Nature isn't always the best. I have the money to improve on nature and I don't see why I shouldn't" (Cher, as cited in Glasgow Evening Times: 24 April 1992) "We hadn't seen or heard from each other for 28 years...Then he suggested it would be nice if we could meet. I was very nervous about it. How much had I changed? I wanted a facelift, tummy tuck and liposuction, all in one week." (A woman, age forty-nine, being interviewed for an article on "older couples" falling in love; "falling in love again" 1990) In late modernity, the exterior territories, or surfaces, of the body have become symbols of the self, and in a society where capitalist exchange is the dominant system, the body and its parts become commodities to be desired...
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