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Unsuitable (A History of Lesbian Fashion)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Eleanor Medhurst
    Format:
    Hardcover
    Pages:
    344
    Publisher:
    Hurst (June 1, 2024)
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9781805260967
    ISBN-10:
    1805260960
    Weight:
    23.22oz
    Dimensions:
    6.6" x 9.4" x 1.3"
    File:
    OXFORDU-oxford_onix30-2025-0526-20250526.xml
    Folder:
    OXFORDU
    List Price:
    $34.95
    Pub Discount:
    44
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    18
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    $30.41
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-OXFORD
    Discount Code:
    F
    Imprint:
    Hurst
  • Overview

    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.