What makes a woman¿s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women¿s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women¿s bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is ¿really¿ what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social