Fascism of the skin: Symptoms of alienation in the body of consumptive capitalism

Current Sociology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Prosono, Marvin T ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodification; Fascism and the body; Forms of alienation and the body; Popular culture; War and the body

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949210311     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392108090946     Document Type: Review

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