Ribbon culture : charity, compassion, and public awareness /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bastingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Ribbon-wearing : towards a theoretical framework
- Flags and poppies : charity tokens of the early twentieth century
- Ribbon histories
- Symbolic uses of the ribbon
- 'Showing awareness' and the 1960s counter-culture : breaking rules and finding the self
- Worry as a manifestation of awareness : the implications of 'thinking pink'
- The commercialisation of charity and the commodification of compassion
- Conclusion.