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Book SynopsisAna Marta González is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
Laura Bovone is a professor in Sociology of Communication, Director of the 'Centro per lo studio della moda e della produzione culturale' and the Master's program 'Comunicazione per le industrie culturali' at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
About the Contributors
Preface, Joanne Finkelstein (University of Greenwich, London, UK)
Introduction, Diana Crane (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Fashion and Identity
1. The Modern Western Fashion Pattern, its Functions and Relationship to Identity, Colin Campbell (University of York, UK)
2. Fashion, Image, Identity, Ana Marta González (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)
3. Identity and Intersubjectivity, Ann Margaret Brach (Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, USA)
Fashion as Communication
4. Fashion, Identity and Social Actors, Laura Bovone (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
5. The Proliferation of Fashion and the Decline of its Code of Meanings, Alejandro Nestor García Martínez (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)
6. How Successful is Communication via Clothing? Thoughts and Evidence on an Unexamined Paradigm, Efrat Tseëlon (University of Leeds, UK)
7. Adolescence: Identity, Fashion and Narcissism, María Elena Larraín (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
Fashion, Image and Health
8. Fashion, Lifestyle and Psychiatry, Raphael M. Bonelli (University Clinic of Psychiatry in Graz, Austria)
9. The Impact of the Term 'Fashion' on Medical and Psychiatric Literature, Francesco Cecere (Eating Disorders Center, Rome, Italy)
10. Strong Fashion and Weak Identity: A Necessary Association? Maria Teresa Russo (Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy)
Endnotes
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