Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eleanor MedhurstTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:8/15/2026
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hurst & Co.ISBN-13:9781805266051ISBN-10:1805266055UPC:9781805266051Book Category:Social Science, PhotographyBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Women's Studies, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FashionSize:7.77 x 5.18 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.377Product ID:SCKEJE6QXC
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hurst & Co.ISBN-13:9781805266051ISBN-10:1805266055UPC:9781805266051Book Category:Social Science, PhotographyBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Women's Studies, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FashionSize:7.77 x 5.18 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.377Product ID:SCKEJE6QXC
Eleanor Medhurst is a historian of lesbian fashion and author of the blog Dressing Dykes. She has worked on Brighton Museum's exhibitions Queer Looks and Queer the Pier, and been interviewed by Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Cameron Esposito's Queery and Gillian Anderson's What Do I Know?! This is her first book.
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