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Follow-up to: Dining out: a sociology of modern manners. 1989.

What do diets, restaurants, celebrity chefs say about the way we live now? Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life - dining out in restaurants - and uses it to examine the meaning and nature of manners and social relations in the modern world.

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From the rise of the Fashion Cafe to the phenomenon of the supermodel, from MTV's House of Style to Unzipped, the world of fashion has taken center stage in contemporary culture, for better or for worse. In turn, although the idea of fashion has been in circulation since time immemorial, not until recently has its profound and variegated effects -- on economic activity, on social and sexual mores, and on aesthetic and psychological formulation...

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This book examines the nature of the self and self-identity in the modern age, and the way in which they have been moulded through the alteration of bodily appearance, exemplified fashions, facelifts and diets. The idea that an individual′s character is revealed through physical appearance is, Finkelstein argues, deeply embedded in Western culture.