In this episode Meredith and Carla talk about dolls, vulvas, cosmetic surgery, and why the Barbie movie made them feel sad and angry. 

Music provided by SoundKit, from Pond5

https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/89259782-funk-action

In this episode Meredith examines before/after photos – a familiar visual trope in cosmetic surgery.

Why is before/after the most common way of describing cosmetic surgery?

Where has the 'between' gone and is it coming back?

And what does this have to do with eroticism, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty?

Correction: Kathryn Pauly Morgan’s article was published in 1991 (not 1990).

Details: ‘Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies’, in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Volume 6, Issue 3 (Special Issue: ‘Feminism and the Body’), pages 25-53.

The other piece mentioned is Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic, by Elisabeth Bronfen, 1992, Manchester University Press.

Music provided by SoundKit, from Pond5

https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/89259782-funk-action

In this first episode Meredith delves into the Brazilian Butt Lift: What is this cosmetic surgery procedure, how is it done, why does it exist? We talk about body fashions and what people in different times and places think is beautiful. Warning: gory descriptions.  

Music provided by SoundKit, from Pond5

https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/89259782-funk-action