Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity Book

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.Read More

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  • 0230607624
  • 9780230607620
  • Llewellyn Negrin
  • 12 January 2009
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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