Fashionable Masculinities

Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals

Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, Pamela Church Gibson, Pamela Church Gibson

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781978823297
  9781978823303
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978823310
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Fashion Design

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 problematized 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. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• One: Harry Styles: Fashion’s Gender Changeling
• Two: Puff Daddy’s Mogul Style: Penis in Furs or Surface Tensions?
• Three: Daddy Cool: Aging Black Male Bodies and Embodied Stylin’
• Four: Unisex and Individuation: Contemporary Russian Fashion and Men’s (Self)-Styling
• Five: Spectacularizing the Male Body: Fashionable Physiques in the Age of Instagram
• Six: One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad “Bods” and the Popular Romance Novel
• Seven: The Bodyclad Cinematic Hero: Aging, Masculinity, and Technological Mediation
• Eight: The Rise of the Bottom: Counterdiscourse to Challenge Heteronormativity within the Gay Community
• Nine: Unfashionable Goodes: The Wrong Kind of Blak and the Scandalization of Indigenous Masculinities in Settler-Australia
• Ten: The Rough and the Smooth Revisited: Masculinity, Fashion, and James Bond for a New Millennium
• Eleven: “Coming Out” and Fitting In: The Role of Dress and Style in Fashioning Gay Men’s Identities in the New Millennium
• Twelve: Crip Masculinities and Everyday Dress: Intersectional Narratives of Imagination, Access, and Ownership
• Thirteen: Dandyism Revisited: From the English Gent to the Sapeur
• Fourteen: Beard-Grooming Brands and Products as Representations of Masculinity
• Fifteen: Gent-rifying the Stylish Neighborhood: An Examination of Retail Accommodation for the Asian Urban Male Consumer
• Sixteen: A Vision of a Modern Dandy
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index