Men in the Mirror: Men's Fashion, Masculinity, and Consumer Society

178 Pages·2016·16.694 MB·English

by  Tim Edwards

Men in the Mirror
Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
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Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood, Andrew Calcutt
Culture First!: Promoting Standards In The New Media Age, edited by Kenneth Dyson and Walter
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Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled By Their Favourite Books, Deborah
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Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics, and Popular Music in the Pacific, edited by
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Women, Europe And The New Languages Of Politics, Hilary Footitt
Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U): Americanization and Popular Culture, edited by George
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Men in the Mirror
Men's Fashion, Masculinity, and Consumer Society
Tim Edwards
Cultural Studies
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Men in the Mirror

Men in the Mirror
Men's Fashion, Masculinity
and C o n s u m er Society
Tim Edwards
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© Tim Edwards 1997
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First published 1997
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