The DESIRABLE BODY: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption

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The DESIRABLE BODY: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption

• The DESIRABLE BODY: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption available on February 23 2018 from Amazon for 17.95
  
• The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and Erotics of Consumption available on October 29 2016 from Buy for 199.64
  
• ISBN bar code 9780252069512 ξ2 registered February 23 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9780252069512 ξ3 registered October 29 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780252069512 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
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• Manufacturered by University of Illinois Press
  

"Now available for the first time in paperback, Jon Stratton's "The Desirable Body" lays a solid foundation for cultural and gender studies of the body by explicating the links, both historical and philosophical, between commodity culture and cultural fetishism. Proceeding from the theories of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, Stratton delineates the structures of consumerism and desire that, since around 1850, have brought about the fetishization and spectacularization of the female (and more recently the male) body. Stratton ties spectacularization to the primacy of the visual, as evinced in grand expositions, photography, the cinema, and clandestine surveillance techniques. He examines the lolita complex-male desire for unsexed yet seductive adolescent females-in conjunction with a discussion of a historical tendency to attribute incestuous behavior to working-class (but not middle-class) fathers. He explores an enduring fascination with man-made women (both mchaniques and mannequins) in literature (Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "Tomorrow's Eve", E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman") and film ("The Stepford Wives", "Mannequin"). He also explores female patterns of consumption (from ""shop till you drop"" to anorexia) and, concomitant with a more public homosexuality, the fetishization of the male body (e.g., Arnold Schwarzenegger and ads for Calvin Klein underwear). By focusing on the way bourgeois capitalism works to structure those who live within it, Stratton helps explain why destructive patterns of consumption and desire persist in our purportedly enlightened age."

^ Jon Stratton (2015). The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption ISBN 9780252069512 (revised Feb 2016)
^ Jon StrattonThe DESIRABLE BODY: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption, University Of Illinois Press. Amazon. ISBN 9780252069512 (revised Feb 2018)
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