Fashionable masculinities : queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals / edited by Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy and Pamela Church Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karaminas, Vicki, editor.

Geczy, Adam, editor.

Gibson, Pamela Church, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects.

Fashion.

Men's clothing--Social aspects.

Men's clothing.

Masculinity.

Men--Identity.

Men.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Fashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory and precarious moment when masculinities are defined by protests and pandemics whilst being problematized across class, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality. Whilst a majority of men might still define themselves as 'traditional,' post-millennials are now talking about how they envision a future without gender boundaries and borders. Rather than being defined as a gender, masculinity has now become a style that can be worn and performed as traditional and normative codes of masculinity are modulated and manipulated. This volume includes original essays on musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer "Puff Daddy" Sean Coombs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, this book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Harry Styles : Fashion's Gender Changeling / Vicki Karaminas and Justine Taylor

Puff Daddy's Mogul Style : Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions? / Nigel Lezama

Daddy Cool : Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin' / Michael McMillan

Unisex and Individuation : Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men's (Self)-Styling / Vlad Strukov

Spectacularizing the Male Body : Fashionable Physiques in the Age of Instagram / Jay McCauley Bowstead

One Sexy Daddy : Desirable Dad "Bods" and the Popular Romance Novel / Jonathan A. Allan

The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero : Aging, Masculinity, and Technological Mediation / Adam Geczy

The Rise of the Bottom : Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay Community / Andrew Reilly

Unfashionable Goodes : The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-Australia / Barry Judd and Nikita Vanderbyl

The Rough and the Smooth Revisited : Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New Millennium / Pamela Church Gibson

"Coming Out" and Fitting In : The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men's Identities in the New Millennium / Shaun Cole

Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress : Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and Ownership / Ben Barry

Dandyism Revisited : From the English Gent to the Sapeur / Olga Vainshtein

Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of Masculinity / Victor Vey

Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood : An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male Consumer / Anne Peirson-Smith and Jennifer Craik

A Vision of a Modern Dandy / Julio Mompó with Olga Vainshtein

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978823297

1978823290

9781978823303

1978823304

OCLC:

1268546172