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Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style (Dress, Body, Culture)
Dunja Brill
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Description for Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style (Dress, Body, Culture)
Paperback. Explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. This book shares accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture. Series: Dress, Body, Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFCA; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
Goth Culture explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. The book shares vivid accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture. Through the voices of Goths from the UK, US and Germany, it draws the reader into the gender-bending and heavily gendered world of Goth. It reassesses the significance of the dress of both male and female Goths, examining these striking and often highly creative subcultural fashion displays. Using a wide range of methods and sources, from ethnography to critical ... Read more
Goth Culture explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. The book shares vivid accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture. Through the voices of Goths from the UK, US and Germany, it draws the reader into the gender-bending and heavily gendered world of Goth. It reassesses the significance of the dress of both male and female Goths, examining these striking and often highly creative subcultural fashion displays. Using a wide range of methods and sources, from ethnography to critical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berg Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Dress, Body, Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845207687
SKU
V9781845207687
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About Dunja Brill
Dunja Brill is at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Reviews for Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style (Dress, Body, Culture)
The book is strikingly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and is highly readable: Brill has elicited some fascinating material from her interviewees, and her analysis is perceptive and witty. It should provide thought-provoking reading, not only for subcultural scholars, but also for those within the scene itself. THE A riveting account of gender and sexual politics in the Goth scene ... Read more