The Fashioned Self

✍ Scribed by Joanne Finkelstein

Publisher: Polity Press
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 222
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I The Physiognomic Body
1 Character as Immanent in Appearance
2 Refining Appearance, Improving Character
Part II Signs of the Modern Self
3 The Face Lift
4 The Necktie
5 Fashionability
Part III The Fashioned Self
6 The Trial of Character
7 The Self as Sign
Bibliography
Index

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