Queer Style 1st ed.

Author

• Geczy, Adam

Additional Author(s)

• Karaminas, Vicki

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9781350050723

Series

Subcultural style

Subject(s)

• FASHION--SOCIAL ASPECTS

Notes

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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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 178 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

The meaning of style between classic and queer --
Lesbian style : from mannish women to lipstick dykes --
Gay men's style : from macaroni to metrosexual --
Kiss of the whip : bondage, discipline and sadomasochism, or BDSM style --
Drag : of kings and queens --
Crossing genders, crossing cultures --
Conclusion : against justification.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01589/21	391.00866 Gec Q	Online !	Available