Vanity: 21st Century Selves

by Claire Tanner, Suzanne Fraser, JaneMaree Maher, et al.

It has become something of a clich that Western culture is obsessed with celebrity, glamour, and the opportunities ordinary people are now given (reality television, social networking sites, blogging) to become famous. These new engagements between fame and obscurity have been accompanied by energetic debates about the self, image and vanity. Similar debates are also underway in a domain apparently quite different from this digital realm - the corporeal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230272185
• ISBN13: 9780230272187
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"