Has Artificial Beauty Become the New Feminism?
Printer-friendly versionBy Jennifer Cognard-Black, Ms. Magazine
Once considered clandestine and risky, cosmetic procedures are currently treated across a variety of media as if they were as benign and mundane as whitening your teeth. Advertisers, TV producers, publishers, PR personnel and even physicians themselves are touting it as an effortless, egalitarian way for women of all backgrounds to "enhance" their looks and "stay young."
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