Queer Style by Adam Geczy; Vicki Karaminas

Queer Style

Adam Geczy; Vicki Karaminas

‘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, subculturalidentity 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.

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Details

ISBN 9781847881953
Genre LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date 2013
Publisher Bloomsbury Education
No. of Pages 192
LoC Classification GT511 .G43 2013
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Gays – Clothing
BookID 15516

Author: LFWBooks