Overview

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 Combs, 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. 

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Author:   Vicki Karaminas ,  Adam Geczy ,  Pamela Church Gibson ,  Christopher Breward
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781978823303

ISBN 10:   1978823304
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   15 July 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Christopher Breward Introduction Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson 1 Harry Styles: Fashion’s Gender Changeling Vicki Karaminas and Justine Taylor 2 Puff Daddy’s Mogul Style: Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions? Nigel Lezama 3 Daddy Cool: Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin’ Michael McMillan 4 Unisex and Individuation: Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men’s (Self)-Styling Vlad Strukov 5 Spectacularizing the Male Body: Fashionable Physiques in the Age of Instagram Jay McCauley Bowstead 6 One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad “Bods” and the Popular Romance Novel Jonathan A. Allan 7 The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero: Aging, Masculinity, and Technological Mediation Adam Geczy 8 The Rise of the Bottom: Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay Community Andrew Reilly 9 Unfashionable Goodes: The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-Australia Barry Judd and Nikita Vanderbyl 10 The Rough and the Smooth Revisited: Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New Millennium Pamela Church Gibson 11 “Coming Out” and Fitting In: The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men’s Identities in the New Millennium Shaun Cole 12 Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress: Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and Ownership Ben Barry 13 Dandyism Revisited: From the English Gent to the Sapeur Olga Vainshtein 14 Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of Masculinity Victor Vey 15 Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood: An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male Consumer Anne Peirson-Smith and Jennifer Craik 16 A Vision of a Modern Dandy Julio Mompó with Olga Vainshtein Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

Reviews

This text represents the future of men's fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men's fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men's appearances, fashion, and lifestyles. --Joseph H. Hancock, II co-editor of Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies

This text represents the future of men's fashion studies. It symbolizes a pivotal turn for understanding this discipline. The contributors take us on a journey through men's fashion from the beginning into contemporary style. This book is crucial for anyone interested in men's appearances, fashion, and lifestyles. --Joseph H. Hancock, II professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia Contributors include some of the best minds in their field ... and the book's 16 chapters are accessible to anyone interested in gender and clothing. ...Fashionable Masculinities picks apart our understanding of manhood, showing how 'masculinity has become a style that can be worn, assumed -- or abjured.' --Derek Guy Vulture.com & New York Magazine (8/19/2022 12:00:00 AM) It is not just queers, pimp daddies, and lumbersexuals who rendezvous on this volume; it is a whole spectrum of masculinities: blak-indigenous men, gym bros, ageing action heroes, retro hipsters, Harry, and gen-Z influencers. Masculinities are legion: fluid, complex, and poised to forever resist essentializing binaries and gender signifiers. This timely volume, written by top experts in the field, offers a thorough insight into the design, advertising, retail, and consumption of fashionable masculinities. --Jose Blanco F. Chair of Fashion, Dominican University, Illinois

Author Information

VICKI KARAMINAS is Professor of Fashion at Massey University New Zealand and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Visual Arts, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She edits and sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards and is the Chair of Trustees for the Association of Dress Historians and the founding President of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. ADAM GECZY is an artist and writer who teaches at the University of Sydney. His exhibitions across Australia and Europe have received considerable critical acclaim and his work appears in numerous national collections. With some twenty books, in 2009 he won the Choice award for best academic title in art.  PAMELA CHURCH GIBSON is Reader in Film & Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion and has published extensively on film, fashion, and heritage. She is the founder and Principal Editor of the journal Film, Fashion & Consumption, and Principal Editor of the book series, Films and Fashions at Edinburgh University Press. Her articles on film and on fashion can be found in various peer-reviewed journals, and her books include: The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, with John Hill, Fashion Cultures, with Stella Bruzzi, and Fashion and Celebrity Culture.

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