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• Some women regard 'truth' as social advantage through plastic surgery ('psychologists with scalpel')
• Understand the need for body modification and physical alteration of the body- enhancing the self esteem and resolving the inferiority complex of women
• Psychological need to plastic surgery to enhance beauty
• Edwards would struggle to understand the women who have plastic surgery due to the cultural differences as well as the differences associated with gender
• Brazilians open with each about a plastic surgery- speak about it openly; interviews on TV, magazines, etc
• "In the West women's social identity was often defined in the private domain of the family.. fundamental change in the structures of family and sexual relationships"
• Find it hard to understand the need of plastic surgery, different societal expectations