1) What's the title mean?
2) "Cosmetic surgery entails the ultimate envelopment of the lives temporal
reality of the human subject b technologyically created appearances that
are then regarded as "the real." 117
3) "Rather than aspiring to self-determined and women-centered ideas
of health or integrity, women's attactiveness is defined as attractive-to-men."
118
4) "Magic knives in a patriarchal context." 119
5) "Women have traditionally regarded their bodies, particularly if
they are young, beautiful, and fertile, as a locus of power to be enhanced
through artifice and, now through, artifact." 119
6) "More often than not, what appear at first glance to be instances
of choice turn out to be instances of conformity." 121
7) "Moreover, in seeking independence, they can become even more dependent
on male assessment and on the services of all those experts they initially
brought to render them independent." 121
8) "Women who refuse to use these technologies are already becoming
stigmatized as "unliberated," "not caring about their appearance," as "refusing
to be all that they could be" or as "granola heads." 122
9) The "response of refusal"