Appearance and Identity

Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity

L. Negrin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2009 | 1st ed. 2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-37429-8 (ISBN)

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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.

DR. LLEWELLYN NEGRIN is currently Head of and Senior Lecturer in Art and Design Theory at the School of Art, University of Tasmania, Australia where she has taught since 1989. She has published many articles in journals such as Theory, Culture& Society, Body& Society, Philosophy& Social Criticism, Feminist Theory and the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

Introduction: Appearance and Identity The Self as Image: A Critical Appraisal of Postmodern Theories of Fashion Cosmetics and the Female Body Cosmetic Surgery and the Eclipse of Identity Body Art and Men's Fashion Ornament and the Feminine The Postmodern Gender Carnival

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 200 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schönheit / Kosmetik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Organische Chemie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-349-37429-6 / 1349374296
ISBN-13	978-1-349-37429-8 / 9781349374298
Zustand	Neuware