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"The highly charged characters who people the pages of The Chameleon Body have adopted an array of differing degrees of bodily metamorphosis: from minimal facial piercings, to more extreme and defiant acts, such as those of the Italian performance artist Franko B, who uses his own flesh and blood to express alienation and trauma. All of them, however, bear witness to the body's capacity for change and transformation: this is the theme of The Chameleon...
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"Louise J. Kaplan, author of Female Perversion, explores the "fetishism strategy" in her new book, Cultures of Fetishism. The fetishism strategy is a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and quell human vitalities. Challenging conventional notions of human psychology, Kaplan argues that fetishism is not just about enhancing sexual excitement." "She demonstrates the intertwined relationships between the erotic and the destructive, between...
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The concept of fetishism has recently assumed a growing importance in critical thinking about the cultural construction of sexuality. Yet until now no scholar with an in-depth knowledge of fashion history has studied the actual clothing fetishes themselves. Nor has there been a serious exploration of the historical relationship between fashion and fetishism, although erotic styles have changed significantly and "sexual chic" has become increasingly...
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