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. INDICE: 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 Menb s Fashion- Ornament and the Feminine - The Postmodern Gender Carnival
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60762-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 12/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés