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A fresh examination of the representation of Brazilian dress, furthering academic debates on global dress and fashion and bringing new light to existing scholarship on National Geographic

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The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.

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This text presents a theory of what dress means in relation to the body. Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and serves both to distinguish and connect self and "Other". It argues that clothing is both a boundary and not a boundary.

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This text presents a theory of what dress means in relation to the body. Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and serves both to distinguish and connect self and "Other". It argues that clothing is both a boundary and not a boundary.

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"The first systematic study of fatness and thinness in the fashion industry, this book explores the reasons why fashion producers forgo the plus-size market in favour of the ideal of thinness"--

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Using Anthony Giddens Structuration theory and rhetorical theory, this book identifies fat acceptance activists tactics to end fat stigma. The book covers the benefits and detriments of social media in fat acceptance activism, the importance of symbolism and rhetorical savvy, and the use of narrative in fat activism.

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Using Anthony Giddens Structuration theory and rhetorical theory, this book identifies fat acceptance activists tactics to end fat stigma. The book covers the benefits and detriments of social media in fat acceptance activism, the importance of symbolism and rhetorical savvy, and the use of narrative in fat activism.

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Uncovers and investigates the conflicts apparent in football rivalry, by gathering together a series of in-depth case studies that span the football world.

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Uncovers and investigates the conflicts apparent in football rivalry, by gathering together a series of in-depth case studies that span the football world.

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The label "Gonzo journalism" is challenged, questioned, and ultimately expanded by this wide-ranging, multinational collection.

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Is Gangsta Rap just black noise Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen.

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This book argues that Indonesian female workers are actively confronting matters that are important to their interests as labor. In their writings and activism, they challenge the political order and demand gender justice.

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This text examines the place of food in the American woman's life, roles and self-image. Combining feminist anthropology and theory with culinary history, it examines food in women's history, with a particular emphasis on the life and changing roles of the American woman and her self-image.

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Shows how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. This work traces the travels' of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse to modern residues and configurations in films, literature, and popular culture.

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Shows how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. This work traces the travels' of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse to modern residues and configurations in films, literature, and popular culture.