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Crossing the Catwalk - Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture (Hardcover)
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Crossing the Catwalk - Transvestism in Contemporary Fashion and Culture (Hardcover)
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In the 1930s, Freud observed that "when you meet a human being, the
first distinction you make is `male or female?' and you are
accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty." As
Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be
either "male" or "female." This notion seems to be fixed within our
culture and is often unquestioned. In this dynamic book, fashion
journalist Laura Cherrie Beaney examines gender as a concept and as
a practice that is also challenged and contested in the fashion
industry. While gender has been relatively fixed within our
society, we are nevertheless entertained by "gender bending." The
media and entertainment industries now represent a range of gender
identities. As much as it is a cultural phenomenon, gender is also
an individual practice. Social theorists describe some individuals
as "gender outlaws" for actively choosing to blend and shape their
own gender identities. Fashionable clothing makes multiple
statements about the wearer. It can identify social status and tell
the viewer, "This is the type of person I am." In contemporary
culture, fashion designers, stylists, photographers, and other
media professionals have been fascinated with the idea of gender
and its ever-changing boundaries. In recent years, the fashion
industry has also focused on ideas of unisex identity and
androgyny. Indeed, the fashion industry seems to afford a decadent
sense of power to alternative gender identities. Fashion designers
and stylists have been inspired by alternative gender identities
when creating images and when showcasing their designs. Crossing
the Catwalk explores fashion to understand how this mediated image
of gender equality in the twenty-first century relates to reality
by examining cross-dressing and transvestism through the
construction of personal style. By using case studies from a range
of different sources, the book will give a clear idea of how the
reality of cross-dressing compares to the glamorous and decadent
images portrayed by the fashion industry. It will aim to uncover
the true motivations for those who cross dress and analyze the
construction of gendered personal styles in relation to fashion.
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