Rise of Consumer Culture
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n the consumer culture, "every instrument of the popular media - advertisements, television, and film to the press - provides a proliferation of stylised images of the body and emphasises the cosmetic benefits of body maintenance" (Featherstone, 1991).... One has "to do", and the consumer culture is characterised by tremendous manifestations of asceticism never seen in the world (perhaps, I'm obviously exaggerating here) since the dark ages: fasting, working out, cosmetic surgery and nips and tucks of all sizes and shapes, ingestion of dietary supplements, the proliferation of diets to name a few....