Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites

R. Holliday; David Bell; Meredith Jones; Kate Hardy; Emily Hunter; E. Probyn; J. Taylor

DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2013.832655

Corpus ID: 53446272

Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites

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  title={Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites},
  author={R. Holliday and David Bell and Meredith Jones and Kate Hardy and Emily Hunter and E. Probyn and J. Taylor},
  journal={Gender, Place \& Culture},
  year={2015},
  volume={22},
  pages={106 - 90}
}

R. Holliday, David Bell, +4 authors J. Taylor
Published 2015
Gender, Place & Culture

Cosmetic surgery tourism is a significant and growing area of medical tourism. This article explores the gendered construction of cosmetic surgery tourism in different geographical locations through an analysis of destination websites in Spain, the Czech Republic and Thailand. We examine the ways in which gender and other intersections of identity interact with notions of space, place and travel to construct particular locations and cosmetic surgery tourist experiences. The relational… Expand

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R. Holliday, Kate Hardy, +4 authors J. Taylor
Geography
2013

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Psychology
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Sociology
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2015

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