DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Fashioned Self

Joanne Finkelstein author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:28th Feb '91

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Fashioned Self cover

This book examines the nature of the self and self-identity in the modern age, and the way in which they have been moulded through the alteration of bodily appearance, exemplified fashions, facelifts and diets. The idea that an individual's character is revealed through physical appearance is, Finkelstein argues, deeply embedded in Western culture. And since fashions and cosmetics are closely linked to sexual difference, the author concentrates on aspects of gender identity, suggesting that the female and male identity are differentiated through opposed experiences of the body.

ISBN: 9780745606873

Dimensions: 240mm x 164mm x 21mm

Weight: 482g

213 pages