Fixing the phenomenon of «fashionable body» in contemporary ukrainian culture: exclusive and excluded Cover Image

Фиксация феномена «модного тела» в современной украинской культуре: исключительные и исключенные
Fixing the phenomenon of «fashionable body» in contemporary ukrainian culture: exclusive and excluded

Author(s): Natalya Dubovenko
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Polsko-Rosyjski
Keywords: physicality; fashion; Ukrainian culture

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary Ukrainian culture holds such a phenomenon as “fashionable body”. A "fashionable body" in Ukrainian society is an object of desire and imitation for millions of people. Existence of ideals created the problem of an “excluded” bodies. We can notice destruction of old models of corporalness, that certainly will result in deformation of basic anthropological descriptions. The results of this paper can be applied in the cultural and philosophical anthropology, philosophy of culture, education, cultural studies and intercultural dialogue.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 53-64
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian