The consuming body [electronic resource] /
Pasi Falk.
- London : SAGE, 1994.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 238 p.) : ill.
- Theory, culture & society .
- Theory, culture & society. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders.