TY - JOUR
AU - Masi de Casanova, Erynn
AB - Social Forces, 2024, 103, e1–e3 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae036 Advance access publication date 31 March 2024 Book Review Review of “Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards” By Alka Vaid Menon University of California Press, 2023. 304 pages, Prices (cloth and paper): $95.00 (hardcover); $29.95 (paperback) https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520386723/ refashioning-race Reviewer: Erynn Masi de Casanova, University of Cincinnati f you want to change your face but not your race, you are the target market for “ethnic cosmetic surgery,” the topic of Alka V. Menon’s engaging new book based on research in the I United States and Malaysia. Refashioning Race approaches cosmetic surgery as a “transnational racial project” in which cosmetic surgeons play an important role. These professionals claim expertise by approaching the craft of surgery as both science and art. Cosmetic surgeons don’t just reproduce ideas about race, but actively interpret and shape them. The main question of the book is how their expertise and influence play out at the macro, meso, and micro levels, and the author finds “a clear contrast between how racial categories were used in expert discourse compared to clinical practice” (Menon 2023: 195). The cases selected are ripe for comparison. Both the United States and Malaysia 
TI - Review of “Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards”
JF - Social Forces
DO - 10.1093/sf/soae036
DA - 2024-03-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/review-of-refashioning-race-how-global-cosmetic-surgery-crafts-new-mFTwEE8kYI
SP - e3
EP - e3
VL - 103
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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