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Author Stratton, Jon.

Title The desirable body : cultural fetishism and the erotics of consumption / Jon Stratton
Published Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996

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Description 250 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Commodity fetishism and cultural fetishism -- 2. cultural fetishism, photography, and death -- 3. The spectacularisation of the female body -- 4. the fetishisation of the male body -- 5. The phallicised female body and its consumption -- 6. The spectacularisation of the male body -- 7. Man-made women -- Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Body image.
Fetishism (Sexual behavior)
Fetishism.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
Popular culture -- History.
Power (Social sciences)
Sex in popular culture.
Sex symbolism -- History.
Sex symbolism.
LC no. 00712449
ISBN 0719047013 (hardback)