Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals
Adam Geczy (Editor), Vicki Karaminas (Editor), Pamela Church Gibson (Editor) · Rutgers University Press · July 2022 · Reviewed in Film, Fashion and Consumption
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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 problematised 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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