[Commlist] New book: Crossing Gender Boundaries

Intellect is pleased to announce that /*Crossing Gender 
Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/crossing-boundaries>*/, edited by Andrew 
Reilly and Ben Barry, is now available to order.

This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the 
relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary 
contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how 
dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate 
gender issues through the lens of fashion. /Crossing Gender Boundaries/ 
first examines how clothing has been, and continues to be, used to 
create and maintain the binary gender division that has come to permeate 
Western and westernized cultures. Next, it explores how dress can be 
used to contest and subvert binary gender expectations, before a final 
section that considers the meaning of gender and how dress can transcend 
it, focusing on unisex and genderless clothing.

The essays consider how fashion can both constrict and free gender 
expression, explore the ways dress and gender are products of one other 
and illuminate the construction of gender through social norms. Readers 
will find that through analysis of the relationship between gender and 
fashion, they gain a better understanding of the world around them.


*_Table of Contents_*
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*Introduction*

*Section One: Creating Gende*r

*1.* ‘Bifurcated Garments and Divided Skirts: Redrawing the Boundaries 
of the Sartorial Feminine in Late Victorian Culture’ – /Kimberly Wahl/
*2.* ‘“Hard and Straight”: The Creation of Nineteenth Century Masculine 
Subjectivity through Corsetry’ – /Alanna McKnight /
*3.* ‘Mirror Epiphany: Transpersons’ Use of Dress to Create and Sustain 
Their Affirmed Gender Identities’ – /Jory M. Catalpa and Jenifer K. McGuire/
*4.* ‘Withering Heights: High Heels and Hegemonic Masculinity’ – 
/Elizabeth Semmelhack/

*Section Two: Disrupting Gender*

*5.* ‘Cute Men in Contemporary Japan’ – /Toby Slade/
*6.* ‘The Politicisation of Fashion in Virtual Queer Spaces: A Case 
Study of Saint Harridan one of the Pioneering Queer Fashion Brands in 
the Twenty-First Century’ – /Kelly Reddy-Best/
*7.* ‘She Was Not A Girly Girl: Athletic Apparel, Female Masculinity, 
and the Endorsement of Difference’ – /Christina Bush/
*8.* ‘Gender More: An Intersectional Perspective on Men's Transgression 
of the Gender Dress Binary’ – /Ben Barry and Andrew Reilly/
*9. *‘In-vest-ed Meaning: Gender Ambiguity in Costume Collections’ – 
/Katie Baker Jones and Jean L. Parsons/
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*Section Three: Transcending Gender*

*10.* ‘The Politics of the Neutral: Rad Hourani’s Unisex Vision’ – 
/Rebecca Halliday /
*11.* ‘Shirting Identities: Negotiating Gender Identity through the 
Dress Shirt’ –/Valerie Rangel/
*12.* ‘Why Don’t I Wear Skirts? Understanding Dress Behaviour through 
Historical Contexts’ – /Jung Ha-Brookshire/
*13.* ‘Critical Mascara: On Fabulousness, Creativity and the End of 
Gender’ – /madison moore/
*14.* ‘Clothes (Un)make the (Wo)man – Un-gendering Fashion (2015?)’ – 
/Hazel Clark and Leena-Maija Rossi/


Please visit our website for more information: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/crossing-boundaries

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