PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thaïs Machado-Borges
TI  - O antes e o depois:
AID  - 10.1353/lbr.0.0004
DP  - 2008 Jun 01
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 146--163
VI  - 45
IP  - 1
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/45/1/146.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/45/1/146.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2008 Jun 01; 45
AB  - The present article analyzes how women and cosmetic surgery are represented in a Brazilian magazine called Plastica e Beleza [Plastic Surgery and Beauty]. This monthly magazine is specialized, as its name indicates, in bodily aesthetics, and it addresses mostly a female audience. Situated within an anthropological analysis of media, the present article investigates how discourses about bodily aesthetics produce and reproduce certain representations of gender, class, and race that can be found in contemporary Brazil. It is argued that cosmetic surgery’s “before and after” reflects the here and now of the Brazilian social body.