Beyond Fetishism and Other Excursions in Psychopragmatics

Do the meanings of the innumerable fetish-signs appearing in recent artworks depend on the senders'' intentions? Is the meaning of postfeminist glamour the celebration of femininity that its practitioners tout to counter ersatz macho posturing? To fully examine and clarify these and other issues involving gender, postcolonial, and artistic otherness, this book argues for a more adequate view of pe...