Elective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation

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dc.contributor.advisorRutherford, Alexandra
dc.contributor.advisorTeo, Thomas
dc.creatorRodrigues, Sara Marie
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-01T13:54:38Z
dc.date.available2018-03-01T13:54:38Z
dc.date.copyright2017-06-29
dc.date.issued2018-03-01
dc.date.updated2018-03-01T13:54:38Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocial & Political Thought
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines what happens when elective breast surgery intervenes on women at the level of their body images. In this theoretical-empirical project, I compare practitioner discourses and patient narratives of the impact of breast augmentation and reduction surgeries on female body image. To this end, I conducted two case studies: first, a feminist-poststructuralist discourse analysis of practitioner-authored studies on elective breast surgery and body image, as published in peer-reviewed journals; and second, a feminist-phenomenological inquiry into womens first-hand accounts of their experiences of these surgical procedures. I argue that body image is, at one and the same time, an uncritically accepted concept that encourages normative understandings of surgical outcomes and a productive lens through which women make sense of how surgery instigates a reorientation of the body and its habits. The unique contributions of this project are that it brings together poststructuralism and phenomenology so as to concurrently examine practitioner and patient perspectives of the effects of surgery, and critically examines the mainstream notion and widespread acceptance of body image.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34303
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsBody image
dc.subject.keywordsBody schema
dc.subject.keywordsBreast reduction
dc.subject.keywordsBreast augmentation
dc.subject.keywordsSurgery
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment
dc.subject.keywordsSubjectivity
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsPoststructuralism
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist theory
dc.subject.keywordsThe body
dc.titleElective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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