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The Contradictions of Culture

The Contradictions of Culture

The Contradictions of Culture

Elizabeth Wilson

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Sage Publications
Año de edición:
2000
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9780761969754
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Elizabeth Wilson explores the contradictory nature of cultural relations through an examination of fashion, feminism, consumer culture, representation and postmodernism. Debates within feminism on the nature and effects of pornography are used to illustrate a particular kind of cultural contradiction.

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