The Visible Self

Author: Joanne B. Eicher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1609018702
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.

The Visible Self

Author: Joanne Bubolz Eicher
Publisher: Fairchild Books & Visuals
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
The authors elaborate on what dress is, define ethnocentrism and position dress in todays society. Using Western and non-Western examples, the book fosters an appreciation of the diversity of surface appearance through an exploration of the common purposes served by dress to protect, satisfy and communicate. The Visible Self, 2nd Edition, analyzes the act of dressing - not simply putting on clothing, but cleansing the body and adorning it.

Sources of the Self

Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429498
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description
Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis.

A Networked Self

Author: Zizi Papacharissi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135966168
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
A Networked Self examines self presentation and social connection in the digital age. This collection brings together new work on online social networks by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. The volume is structured around the core themes of identity, community, and culture—the central themes of social network sites. Contributors address theory, research, and practical implications of the many aspects of online social networks.

The Visible Self

Author: Joanne Bubolz Eicher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781501304262
Category : Body marking
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Everywhere around the world, people make daily decisions about what to wear or how to dress. Using Western and non-Western examples, 'The Visible Self' presents a systematic approach to analyzing these daily rituals that we all share - not simply the act of putting on clothing, but also cleansing the body and adorning it.

Measuring the Visible

Author: Andrea Cady
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181

Book Description

Jacob's New Dress

Author: Sarah Hoffman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807563749
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
One of 10 Best Indie Picture Books of 2014, ForeWord Reviews Runner-Up, 2014 New England Book Festival: Children's Books 2014 Distinguished List of the Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California CCBC Choices 2015 An affirming story about gender nonconformity. Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants? This heartwarming story speaks to the unique challenges faced by children who don't identify with traditional gender roles.

Lost in the Cosmos

Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453216340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.

The Visible Man

Author: Chuck Klosterman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143918447X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Treating a delusional scientist who has been using cloaking technology from an aborted government project to render himself nearly invisible, Austin therapist Victoria Vick becomes obsessed with his accounts of spying on the private lives of others.

The Threshold of the Visible World

Author: Kaja Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317795970
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.