Queer Style (Subcultural Style)
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1847881963 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This insightful book looks at the way fashion has coded same-sex desire, from eighteenth-century macaronis and gentlemen fops to modern leathermen and muscle queens, from mannish Sapphic women to lipstick lesbians. While there has been a tremendous amount of writing in queer studies, none has combined it with fashion and style to give us a fresh look at fashion studies. As to whether you can wear white shoes after summer's end, blue and green together or a meat dress to the Oscars.you are on your own. The depth of research as well the global aspects of the book make this an invaluable text for accomplished scholars and to students from a range of academic courses. (Dr. (Robert Aldrich, Professor of European History, University of Sydney, Australia)From Rosa Bonheur and Radclyffe Hall through Bowie and Warhol to Boy George and Leigh Bowery: just a few of the
Miguel Cruz said BRILLIANT!. .a history of 'Coming Out' through sartorial discourse BRILLIANT!
She is the Executive Director and Chair of Fashion for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Chair for Subcultural Style and Identity for the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Adam Geczy is an artist and writer. She is the editor of The Men's Fashion Reader (Berg, 2009), Fashion in Fiction (Berg, 2009) and The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
Divided into three main sections on history, subcultural identity and subcultural style, Queer Style will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.. From a fashion studies perspective, it examines the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used as signifiers of identity. Diverse dress is examined, including effeminate 'pansy,' masculine macho 'clone,' the 'lipstick' and 'butch' lesbian styles and the extreme styles of drag kings and drag queens. Queer Style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles