Queer Style

by Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam

• ISBN13: 9781847881960
• ISBN10: 1847881963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-10-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Queer Styleoffers 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 Stylewill be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.

Author Biography

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer. He is Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, and author of several books including (with Michael Carter) Reframing Art (Berg, 2005) and Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions (Berg, 2008), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009.Vicki Karaminas is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and Associate Head of the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. 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. She is the editor of The Men's Fashion Reader (Berg, 2009), Fashion in Fiction (Berg, 2009) and The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

Table of Contents

ContentsIntroductionChapter One: 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 dressingChapter Two: 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 ChicChapter Three: Gay Men's Style: From Macaroni to Metrosexual Macaronis and Fops Dandies, Aesthetes, Oscar Wilde, and the Early Days of Queer Style The Artistic Avant-garde and the Years Pending World War II Artistic Bent. Warhol, Glam and Pop Gay Activism, Gay pride, Clowns and Clones Contemporary Queer: Hard to SayChapter Four: Kiss of the Whip. Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism, or BDSM Style Military Uniforms and the Gestapo Clips, Clamps Leather and AccessoriesChapter Five: Drag. Of Kings and Queens Dames, Divas and Queens Drag Balls Kinging and Club CultureChapter Six: Crossing Genders, Crossing Cultures Japanese Dandy Style Mardi Gras Boys of Singapore Albanian Sworn Virgins Polynesian Gender Crossing The Hijra: An Alternative Gender Role in India Lady Boys and Tom Boys of ThailandConclusion: Against Justification