Queer style including a chapter on trans* and fluid style / Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas.
| Author/creator | Geczy, Adam |
| Other author | Karaminas, Vicki |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Revised and updated edition. |
| Publication Info | London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024. |
| Description | x, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. The Meaning of Style Between Classic and Queer -- Winckelmann and the Suppressed Homoerotism in Modernist style -- A Selective History of Non-queer, Standard, Straight and Classic dressing -- 2.. Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes -- Mannish Lesbians and Salon Dandies -- Lesbian Bar Culture of the Forties and Fifties -- Feminist Androgyny and Anti Style -- Cross Dressing and Androgynous Style -- Designer Dykes and Lesbian Chic -- Lesbian Visibility in the Twentieth Century -- 3. Designer Dykes and Lesbian Visibility -- The L Word and Generation Q -- Lesbian Chic -- The Pleasures of Looking. Lesbians in film and media -- Hip Hop Lesbian Style -- 4. Early Modern Gay Men's Styles -- Macaroni's and Fops -- Dandies and Aesthetes. The Early Days of Queer Style -- Wilde, Posing, and the 'Birth' of Homosexuality -- Paris Dandies, Aesthetes and Decadents -- 5. Modern and Contemporary Gay Men's Styles -- The Years Pending World War II -- Artistic Bent. Warhol, Glam and Pop -- Gay Activism and Gay pride -- Contemporary Queer: Hard to Say -- 6. Kiss of the Whip. Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism, or BDSM Style -- Military Uniforms and the Gestapo -- Clips, Clamps Leather, and Accessories -- The Mainstreaming of BDSM -- 7. Drag Kings and Queens -- Dames and Queens -- Drag and Artistic Practice -- Drag as Politics -- Drag Balls -- Kinging and Club Culture -- RuPaul Supermodel -- 8. Trans* and Fluid Style -- By Way of a Geneology -- Against Categorization -- Transgender Celebrity -- Fluid Fashion and Style -- 9. Crossing Genders, Crossing Cultures -- Japanese Dandy Style -- Albanian Sworn Virgins -- The Hijra: An Alternative Gender Role in India -- Fa'fafine and Polynesian Gender Crossing -- Two Spirit First Nation -- Kathoey and Tom Boys of Thailand |
| Abstract | Queer Style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles. 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. 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. |
| General note | First published in Great Britain 2013. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023548300 |
| ISBN | 1350365939 |
| ISBN | 9781350365933 |
| ISBN | 1350365920 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781350365926 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |