The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, & AdvertisingA provocative investigation of the links between contemporary advertising images and 19th-century medical discourse. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
in search of the female thing | 17 |
3 | 51 |
What does man want? the fetish and the anorexic | 119 |
a ritual journey | 152 |
Representation is dead long live representation | 172 |
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