The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption

by Jon Stratton

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Aims to lay a foundation for cultural and gender studies of the body, by explicating the links, both historical and philosophical, between commodity culture and cultural fetishism. This book details the structures of consumerism and desire that, since around 1850, have brought about the fetishization and spectacularization of the female body.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:025206951X

ISBN13:9780252069512

Release Date:December 2000

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.9"

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