Appearance and Identity : Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity

Name: Appearance and Identity
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9780230607620
Price: 16200 KES
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ISBN: 9780230607620

2008 ed.

by L. Negrin

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0230607624

ISBN-13 9780230607620

Edition 2008 ed.

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 12th, 2009

Print length 200 Pages

Weight 390 grams

Dimensions 14.60 x 22.10 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups Sociology Social theory

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This book casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society. It addresses various aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries.

This book critically examines recent theories of fashion which have sought to legitimize its pleasures and defend it as an avenue for self-expression. Through a series of essays which address different aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including the wearing of makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, the role of ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries, it is argued that the greatest concern today lies not in the failure to acknowledge the pleasures of fashion, but, on the contrary, in the tendency to elevate it to a dominant position in everyday life where the cultivation of one''s physical appearance supplants all other sources of identity formation.

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