Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at the University of Sydney, Australia. Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at Massey University New Zealand. She holds an honorary Professorial position at the University of Sydney and is Honorary fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 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 dressing 2.. 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 Chic Lesbian Visibility in the Twentieth
Century 3. Designer Dykes and Lesbian Visibility The L Word and Generation
Q Lesbian Chic The Pleasures of Looking. Lesbians in film and media Hip Hop
Lesbian Style 4. Early Modern Gay Men's Styles Macaroni's and Fops Dandies
and Aesthetes. The Early Days of Queer Style Wilde, Posing, and the 'Birth'
of Homosexuality Paris Dandies, Aesthetes and Decadents 5. Modern and
Contemporary Gay Men's Styles The Years Pending World War II Artistic Bent.
Warhol, Glam and Pop Gay Activism and Gay pride Contemporary Queer: Hard to
Say 6. Kiss of the Whip. Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism, or BDSM
Style Military Uniforms and the Gestapo Clips, Clamps Leather, and
Accessories The Mainstreaming of BDSM 7. Drag Kings and Queens Dames and
Queens Drag and Artistic Practice Drag as Politics Drag Balls Kinging and
Club Culture RuPaul Supermodel 8. Trans* and Fluid Style By Way of a
Geneology Against Categorization Transgender Celebrity Fluid Fashion and
Style 9. Crossing Genders, Crossing Cultures Japanese Dandy Style Albanian
Sworn Virgins The Hijra: An Alternative Gender Role in India Fa'fafine and
Polynesian Gender Crossing Two Spirit First Nation Kathoey and Tom Boys of
Thailand Conclusion: Against Justification Bibliography Index
