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"