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Unsuitable : a history of lesbian fashion
Medhurst, Eleanor2024
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The way we dress can show or hide who we are; make us fit in, make us stand out, or make our own community. Yet "lesbian fashion" has been strangely overlooked. What secrets can it reveal about the lives and status of queer women through the ages? The lesbian past is slippery: often deliberately hidden, edited or left unrecorded. "Unsuitable" restores to history the dazzlingly varied clothes worn by women who love women, from top hats to violet tiaras. This story spans centuries and countries, from "Gentleman Jack" in nineteenth-century Yorkshire and Queen Christina of seventeenth-century Sweden, to Paris modernism, genderqueer Berlin, butch/femme bar culture and gay rights activists--via drag kings, "Vogue" editors and the Harlem Renaissance. This book is a kaleidoscope of the margins and the mainstream, celebrating trans lesbian style, Black lesbian style, and gender nonconformity. You don't have to be queer or fashionable to be enthralled by this hidden history. "Unsuitable" lights it up for the world to see, in all its finery.
Main title:
Unsuitable : a history of lesbian fashion / by Eleanor Medhurst.
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Imprint:
London : Hurst and Company, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
xi, 268 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-256) and index.
ISBN:
9781805260967 (hardback)
Dewey class:
391.008
Language:
English
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BRN:
510398
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 391.008 UNS | Onloan - Due: 20 Dec 2024 |