Abstract

The paper analyzes the emergence of plastic and cosmetic surgery during the twentieth century. Underpinned by the cyborg theory developed by Donna Haraway, this article attempts at the analysis of new ways of relationship between body and society, delving into reconstructive and aesthetic surgeries as techniques of production and construction of contemporary bodies. It looks at these new forms insofar they constitute new devices for subjectivity in which the interplay between socio-technical linkages and the body politics of technology, medicine, gender and aesthetic take place.