The regulation of gender: silicone breast implants, regulatory processes and femininity

Title: The regulation of gender: silicone breast implants, regulatory processes and femininity
Creator: Fraser, Suzanne
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 7, Issue 1-2, p. 43-61
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2003
Description: Regulatory discourse on silicone breast implant surgery in Australia largely takes its lead from that in the US. In doing so, it utilises a number of linguistic repertoires also found in US material. This paper takes up and adapts the work of Teresa de Lauretis to formulate breast implant discourse as a technology of gender, and uses this theoretical framework to examine two of these repertoires, that of “hysteria” and that of “junk science.” It demonstrates the ways in which the repertoires help shape regulatory decisions about procedures and devices along gendered lines, and at the same time, it draws out the implications of some of the options these repertoires make available to individuals for constructing gendered selves.
Subject: silicone breast implants; gender; regulatory processes; femininity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1046678
Identifier: uon:14669
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
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