Fetishism As Cultural Discourse

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-04-01
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Introductionp. 1
Engendering Fetishism
The Medical Origins of Sexual Fetishismp. 13
Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-Dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1882-1935p. 31
Fetishism and Decadence: Salome's Severed Headsp. 62
Remy de Gourmont with Freud: Fetishism and Patriotismp. 84
Fetishism and Its Ironiesp. 92
Lesbian Fetishism?p. 101
Magic Capital
Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marxp. 119
The Point Is to (Ex)Change It: Reading Capital, Rhetoricallyp. 152
Marxian Value Theory and the Problem of the Subject: The Role of Commodity Fetishismp. 186
Maleficium: State Fetishismp. 217
Scopic Fixations
The Art of Fetishism: Notes on Dutch Still Lifep. 251
The Legs of the Countessp. 266
Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpep. 307
Amor nel Corp. 331
The Smell of Money: Mary Kelly in Conversation with Emily Apterp. 352
Bibliographyp. 363
Contributorsp. 383
Indexp. 387
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