Fashion And Masculinities In Popular Culture
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| Author | : Adam Geczy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2017-09-20 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 1317217594 |
Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have evolved from the postwar era and their relationship to fashion to the present day. As well as demonstrating the role of male icons in contemporary society, this book’s originality also lies in showing the many gender slippages that these icons help to effect or expose. It is by exploring the somewhat inviolate types accorded to contemporary masculinity that we see the very fragility of a stable or rounded male identity.
| Author | : Elwood Watson |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2011-04-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0253222702 |
Elwood Watson is Professor of History, African Studies, and Gender Studies at East Tennessee State University. --
| Author | : Dirk Reynders |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789461173058 |
"Masculinities+ discusses the urgency of exploring masculinity as a societal and cultural discourse in the context of the 21st century. It highlights the evolving nature of masculinity within a new society characterized by progressive ideals such as pluralism, diversity, inclusivity, individualism, and freedom. The book raises questions about the role of new masculinities in various aspects of culture, media, pop culture and fashion, emphasizing the need to adapt the discourse to a society where unity and equality are central. The discussion revolves around the transformation of masculinity and the challenges it poses for men and heterosexual communities in the face of changing norms and values. It acknowledges the emergence of new conceptual frameworks and aims to present these frameworks through questioning underlying codes, new practices, and representations. This book provides an anthology that seeks to contribute to the theoretical, practical, and creative understanding of gender dynamics and the role of masculinity. It invited international contributors from diverse backgrounds to explore gender and masculinity practices, research methodologies, interdisciplinary collaboration, education, and the transformative potential of masculinity in western cultures. The background of the publication is rooted in the aim to highlight critically engaged practices on masculinity in higher education and informal learning contexts. It recognizes the need for research in critical studies about masculinity and identifies areas where research is lacking compared to other academic disciplines. The book also addresses the potential for systematic changes in the creative industry regarding masculinity. Overall, the book underlines the significance of addressing masculinity in diverse cultural contexts, male emancipation, and the impact of masculinity on the fashion media and pop culture industries while aiming to contribute to a cultural discourse that aligns with the values of the 21st century society."--Publisher's website.
| Author | : Tim Edwards |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2016-10-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1474287352 |
In recent decades, the myth of fashionable women and sartorially challenged men has been overturned not least through the proliferation of men's style magazines such as GQ and the emergence of masculinity as a marketing tool. In this engaging book, Edwards applies a sociological approach to our understanding of men's fashion, which he argues is significant in the nexus of masculinity and society, past and present, rather than a narrow artistic or aesthetic interest. Rejecting an essentialist or 'natural' origin, Edwards explores how masculinity and men's fashion are constructed, particularly in relation to consumer society. It is the growing commodification and aestheticism of everyday life, alongside developments in marketing and advertising, that Edwards identifies as the catalyst in the emergence of men's fashion, rather than an abstract 'crisis of masculinity' or 'new man' identity. Concurrently, in the 1980s, changes in demography, economics and ideology gave certain men greater freedom and spending power than ever before. Edwards investigates how these men, clearly distinguished by age, class and sexual orientation, were seduced by advertisers with sexualised images of suited city gents and body-beautiful boys in Levis, and how the resultant process of consumption was facilitated through developments in the practice of shopping itself, such as easy access to credit. He examines the influence of the advertisers' message in creating a hierarchy of masculinity in which some men are valorised and others are denigrated. Starting with a historical review of men's fashion and a discussion of its importance and meanings, Edwards goes on to analyse the contemporary marketing of menswear and masculinity in advertising and in the media, and considers the politics of fashion for men in terms of gender, class, race and sexuality.
| Author | : Frank Mort |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1135079994 |
Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9781474287364 |
In this book, Tim Edwards applies a sociological approach to our understanding of men's fashion, which he perceives to be significant in the nexus of masculinity and society, past and present, rather than simply an artistic of aesthetic interest, usually denoting effeminacy or homosexuality. Rejecting an essentialist or 'natural' origin, Edwards explores how masculinity and men's fashion are constructed, particularly in relation to consumer society. If is the growing commodification and aestheticism of everyday life alongside developments in marketing and advertising, that Edwards identifies as the catalyst in the self-conscious emergence of men's fashion, rather than an abstract 'crisis of masculinity' or the 'new man' identity. Concurrently, in the 1980s, changes in demography, economics and ideology gave certain men greater freedom and spending power than ever before. Edwards investigates how these men, clearly distinguished by age, class and sexual orientation, were seduced by advertisers with sexy images of suited city gents and body-beautiful boys in Levis, and how the resultant process of consumption was facilitated through developments in the practice of shopping itself, such as easy access to credit. He examines the influence of the advertisers' message in creating of hierarchy of masculinity in which some men are valorized and others denigrated. Starting with an historical review of men's fashion and a discussion of its importance and meanings, Edwards goes on to analyse the contemporary marketing of menswear and masculinity in advertising and in the media, and considers the politics of fashion for men in terms of gender, class, race and sexuality.
| Author | : Christopher Breward |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780719047992 |
This book covers various aspects of the social history of politics on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the period 1945 to 1956. The contributors come from a range of countries (Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and the United Kingdom) and comprise a mixture of established historians and younger scholars engaged in pioneering research. The individual chapters are organised into four sections dealing with workers, ethnic and linguistic minorities, youth, and women. In order to enhance the comparative character of the volume, the four chapters contained in each section consider the position of these social groups in, respectively, West Germany, East Germany, Austria, and either Czechoslovakia or Hungary. Major themes include the absence of popular revolutions in the aftermath of World War Two, the re-imposition of social control by post-war elites, the attempt to restore pre-war gender relations, and the failure of Communist parties to win popular support. The chosen time-frame saw most of the decisive developments which set the pattern for the remaining Cold War period and is therefore of key importance for any student of this topic.
| Author | : Vicki Karaminas |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2022-07-15 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 1978823290 |
Fashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance. Essays include musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer "Puff Daddy" Sean Combs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. This book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived.
| Author | : Mark Moss |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2012-07-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0739166271 |
Mark Moss's The Media and the Models of Masculinity details the impact that the mass media has upon men's sense of identity, style, and deportment. From advertising to television shows, mass consumer culture defines and identifies how men select and sort what is fashionable and acceptable. Utilizing a large mine of mediated imagery, men and boys construct and define how to dress, act, and comport themselves. By engaging critical discussions on everything from fashion, to domestic space, to sports and beyond, readers are privy to a modern and fascinating account of the diverse and dominant perceptions of and on Western masculine culture. Historical tropes and models are especially important in this construction and influence and impact contemporary variations.
| Author | : John Beynon |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2001-11-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 033523075X |
* What is 'masculinity'? Is 'masculinities' a more appropriate term? * How are masculinities socially, culturally and historically shaped? * How are particular masculinities created, enacted and represented in specific settings? * How can masculinities best be researched and theorized? Masculinities and Culture explores how 'masculinities', or ways of 'being a man', are anchored in time and place; the products of socio-historical and cultural circumstances. It examines the emergence of a masculinity fit for Empire in the mid to late nineteenth century and, by way of contrast, the more recent media-driven, commercial New Man and New Lad masculinity. The author considers some of the media discourses shaping masculinities today, and the formation of specific masculinities in specific settings (such as prisons, hospitals and schools) which both define, and in turn are defined by, strongly held conceptions of acceptable masculine behaviour. He concludes by reviewing a range of ways in which masculinities might be researched, from fieldwork and auto/biographical and life history approaches through to semiotics and the use of both film and literary texts. This lively text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates concerning masculinities as gendered constructions, along with the means of researching and theorizing them.
