Description: Fantasies of Fetishism by Amanda Fernbach Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book is about cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion. Publisher Description At the dawn of the new millennium, Western culture is marked by various fantasies that imagine our future selves and their forms of embodiment. These fantasies form part of a rapidly growing cultural discourse about the future of the human form, the disappearing boundary between the human and the technological and the cultural consequences of greater human-technological integration. This book is about those cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion.But what exactly is fetishism? At one level fetish club subcultures spectacularize fetishism as a celebration of difference in which the transformation of the self is paramount and mainstream categories, including beliefs about gender, sexuality and the body, are transgressed. However, in film, feminist and post-colonial criticism, fetishisms meaning owes much to Freuds interpretation that the fetish stands in for the mothers missing phallus and disavows her sexual difference. At the level of critical theory, fetishism is almost always regarded as being synonymous with the reproduction of the same - the disavowal rather than the pursuit of otherness.This book argues that the orthodox interpretation of classical fetishism is not and never has been up to the task of explaining all cultural fetishisms. It identifies several different forms of fetishism - decadent fetishism, magical fetishism, matrix fetishism and immortality fetishism - and accounts for its sometimes radical and productive edge. Ranging widely over texts and cultures, Amanda Fernbach skilfully deploys these concepts of fetishism to topics in cultural studies, such as sexual difference, queer identities, computer culture and the post-human and as well as to her objects of study: cross-cultural dressers, technofetishists, cyberspace cowboys, cyborgs, geekgirls Author Biography Amanda Fernbach recently received her doctorate in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia and now lives in New York. She has published widely on the subject of fetishism. Details ISBN 0748616160 ISBN-13 9780748616169 Title Fantasies of Fetishism Author Amanda Fernbach Format Hardcover Year 2002 Pages 256 Publisher Edinburgh University Press GE_Item_ID:133482373; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780748616169
Book Title: Fantasies of Fetishism
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Fantasies of Fetishism : from Decadence to the Post-Human
Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Subjects & Themes / Erotica, Popular Culture, History & Surveys / Modern, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Subjects & Themes / General
Item Weight: 36.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.7 in
Author: Amanda Fernbach
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, Psychology
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Hardcover
