The Fashioned Body
Subtitle: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780745620077
Subjects: Costume; Social & cultural anthropology; Social theory; Social aspects; Fashion; Social Science; Sociology; Beauty & Grooming - Fashion; Sociology - Social Theory; Art / Fashion; Clothing and dress; Gender Studies; Body, Human
First sentence: 'There is an obvious and prominent fact about human beings', notes Turner (1985: 1) at the start of the Body and Society, 'they have bodies and they are bodies'.