The Consuming BodyThis is a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body′s historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation in advertising and pornography. |
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... sexuality . The questions about the gendered nature of power have been facilitated by feminist and gay writing on the body . Much of the development of feminist writing in this area has depended upon the creative work of writers like ...
... sexuality . The questions about the gendered nature of power have been facilitated by feminist and gay writing on the body . Much of the development of feminist writing in this area has depended upon the creative work of writers like ...
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... sexuality which is in turn the focus of modern self - hood . Whereas traditional forms of diet subordinated desire in the interests of the salvation of the soul , in contemporary consumer society the diet assumes an entirely different ...
... sexuality which is in turn the focus of modern self - hood . Whereas traditional forms of diet subordinated desire in the interests of the salvation of the soul , in contemporary consumer society the diet assumes an entirely different ...
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... sexual division of labour and the implications of virtual reality for social embodiment . Although there is much ... Sexuality : Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times . Oxford : Basil Blackwell . Armstrong , D. ( 1983 ) The ...
... sexual division of labour and the implications of virtual reality for social embodiment . Although there is much ... Sexuality : Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times . Oxford : Basil Blackwell . Armstrong , D. ( 1983 ) The ...
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... Sexuality , Vol . 3. Harmondsworth : Penguin . Fustel de Coulanges , N. ( n.d. ) The Ancient City . Garden City : Doubleday , Anchor Books . Gaines , J. and Herzog , C. ( eds ) ( 1990 ) Fabrications : Costume and the Female Body . New ...
... Sexuality , Vol . 3. Harmondsworth : Penguin . Fustel de Coulanges , N. ( n.d. ) The Ancient City . Garden City : Doubleday , Anchor Books . Gaines , J. and Herzog , C. ( eds ) ( 1990 ) Fabrications : Costume and the Female Body . New ...
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... Sexuality ( 1981 : 157 ) according to which the fight against all definitions of sexuality should not draw on ' sex - desire ' but on ' bodies and pleasures ' , and that is all that can be said , because every positive characterization ...
... Sexuality ( 1981 : 157 ) according to which the fight against all definitions of sexuality should not draw on ' sex - desire ' but on ' bodies and pleasures ' , and that is all that can be said , because every positive characterization ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Corporeality and History | 45 |
Chapter 4 Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste | 68 |
Chapter 5 Consuming Desire | 93 |
on the Genealogy of modern advertising | 151 |
Chapter 7 Pornography and the Representation of Presence | 186 |
References | 218 |
Name Index | 232 |
Subject Index | 235 |
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