Appearance and Identity Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity
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
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Appearance and Identity
Llewellyn Negrin
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Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity
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Preface
vii
Introduction
1
1
Appearance and Identity
9
2
Feminism and Fashion
33
3
Cosmetics and the Female Body
53
4
Cosmetic Surgery and the Eclipse of Identity
75
5
Body Art and Men’s Fashion
97
6
Ornament and the Feminine
117
7
The Postmodern Gender Carnival
139
Notes
163
References
173
Author Index
185
Subject Index
187
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Contents
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This book began its life as a series of articles that I have published over the last decade. Chapter 2—“Feminism and Fashion”—is based on a much revised version of an article, “The Self as Image: A Critical Appraisal of Postmodern Theories of Fashion,” published in Theory, Culture & Society 16 (3), 1999: 99–118, while an earlier
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