Rossella Ghigi is a researcher in sociology and she is the Scientific Director of Bologna University’s research center on gender and education at the Department of Education Sciences. Among her research interests are gender studies, body culture and consumption, social discrimination. She has authored many publications, including Per piacere. Storia culturale della chirurgia estetica (il Mulino 2008); I complessi di Narciso. Gli uomini e la chirurgia estetica in Uomini e corpi. Una riflessione sui rivestimenti della mascolinità (Franco Angeli 2009); Fisiognomica e chirurgia estetica, in: R. Ghigi-L. Rodler, Il volto nel pensiero contemporaneo (Il Pozzo di Giacobbe 2010); Nature et artifice dans la chirurgie esthétique, in: Multiples du social. Regards socio-anthropologiques (L’Harmattan 2010). She edited the upcoming book, Adolescenti in genere, which will be published by Carocci later this year.