{"product_id":"authenticity-guaranteed-sally-robinson-9781625343536","title":"Authenticity Guaranteed","description":"Americans love to hate consumerism. Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the \"real\" things in life, including self-determination and individualism. In \u003ci\u003eAuthenticity Guaranteed, \u003c\/i\u003e Sally Robinson brings to light the unacknowledged gender and class assumptions of anti-consumerist critique in the second half of the twentieth century. American anti-consumerism, despite its apparent complexity, takes a remarkably consistent and predictable narrative form. From the mid-century \u003ci\u003eOrganization Man\u003c\/i\u003e to the millennial \u003ci\u003eNo Logo, \u003c\/i\u003e anti-consumerist critique reinforces the gender order by insisting that authenticity is threatened, and masculine agency curtailed, by the feminizing forces of consumer culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robinson identifies a tradition of masculine protest and rebellion against feminization in iconic texts such as \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFight Club, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in critiques of postmodernism, academic denunciations of shopping, and a variety of other discourses that aim to diagnose what ails American consumer culture. This fresh and timely argument enters into conversation with a wide range of existing scholarship and opens up new questions for scholarly and political discussion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sally Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625343531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625343536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018","brand":"Sally Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939337109759,"sku":"9781625343536","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3f860231-4617-4bc2-9784-b44c233c9f68.jpg?v=1681440901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/authenticity-guaranteed-sally-robinson-9781625343536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}