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Research area(s)

Animal/Human Studies, Body Modifications, especially Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery, Cultural Studies, Digital Studies, Embodiment, Fashion Theory, Feminist Theories of the Body, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Trans Studies, Visual Studies

Research Interests

Meredith's work is in the broad fields of Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Cultural Sociology. 

She has researched and written about cosmetic surgery and other body modifications for more than two decades. Her book is a key text in feminist thinking about makeover culture, bodies, and media. In an international ESRC funded research project that explored the phenomenon of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism, Meredith and a team of academics from Australia and the ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥app followed people from the ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥app, Australia and China who went to Thailand, Malaysia, Tunisia and South Korea seeking cosmetic surgery. The book based on this project, Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism, won the

Meredith is the editor of the Routledge series . She welcomes proposals for the series.