ABSTRACT
Now look at the needles and at the knives. Look at them carefully. Look at them for a long time. Imagine them cutting into your skin. Imagine that you have been given this surgery as a gift from your loved one who read a persuasive and engaging press release from Drs. John and Jim Williams that ends by saying “The next morning the limo will chauffeur your loved one back home again, with a gift of beauty that will last a lifetime” (Williams, 1990). Imagine the beauty that you have been promised-----
This paper is about women and about the knives that “sculpt” our bodies to make us beautiful forever. I want to explore this topic for five reasons. First, I am interested in the project of developing a feminist hermeneutics that tries to understand the words and choices of women situated in an interface position with various so-called experts in Western culture.
