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Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from popular culture, including internationally-screened reality-television, entertainment programmes and documentaries, this book examines the ways in which Western media capitalise on body anxiety by presenting physical perfection as a moral imperative, whilst advertising quick and effective transformation methods to erase physical imperfections.

When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore -- The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld -- Before "the Holocaust": American Jews confront catastrophe, 1945-62 / Hasia R. Diner -- Rethinking American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen -- American Judaism in historical perspective / Jonathan Sarna -- From fluidity to rigidity: the religious worlds of conservative and Orthodox Jews in twentieth-century America / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- New directions in Jewish theology in America / Arthur Green -- Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula Hyman -- The paradoxes of American Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield / A demographic revolution in American Jewry / Egon Mayer -- Relatively speaking: constructing identity in Jewish and mixed-married families / Sylvia Barack Fishman

Includes bibliographical references and index. ; When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore -- The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. Rosenfeld -- Before "the Holocaust": American Jews confront catastrophe, 1945-62 / Hasia R. Diner -- Rethinking American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen -- American Judaism in historical perspective / Jonathan D. Sarna -- From fluidity to rigidity: the religious worlds of conservative and Orthodox Jews in twentieth-century America / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- New directions in Jewish theology in America / Arthur Green -- Jewish feminism faces the American women's movement: convergence and divergence / Paula E. Hyman -- The paradoxes of American Jewish culture / Stephen J. Whitfield -- A demographic revolution in American Jewry / Egon Mayer -- Relatively speaking: constructing identity in Jewish and mixed-married families / Sylvia Barack Fishman. ; Mode of access: Internet.