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<div>Dear colleagues,</div>
<div>My book-<i>Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in
Postmodernity-</i> has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan
U.S.A. and will be available in Australia in February, 2009. Below is
a brief description of the book.</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">This book
critically examines recent theories of fashion which have sought to
legitimize its pleasures and defend it as an avenue for
self-expression. Through a series of essays which address different
aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including the wearing of
makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, the role of ornament in dress and
the blurring of gender boundaries, it is argued that the greatest
concern today lies not in the failure to acknowledge the pleasures of
fashion, but, on the contrary, in the tendency to elevate it to a
dominant position in everyday life where the cultivation of one's
physical appearance supplants all other sources of identity
formation.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000">Introduction* Appearance and Identity*Feminism and
Fashion*Cosmetics and the Female Body*Cosmetic Surgery and the Eclipse
of Identity*Body Art and Men's Fashion*Ornament and the Feminine*The
Postmodern Gender Carnival</font></div>
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208 pp. / 0-230-60762-4 / $69.95 cl.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Copies can
be ordered from</font> http://us.macmillan.com/appearanceandidentity .
It is also currently available through various online booksellers such
as Amazon.</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Hope this
book will be of interest to you.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000">Llewellyn</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Dr.
Llewellyn Negrin</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Head of
Art and Design Theory,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">School of
Art,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">University
of Tasmania,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Private
bag 57,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Hobart,
7001,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000">Tasmania</font></div>
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