Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3608459
AutoresAnthony Freitas (0000-0002-7084-6672, a doctoral student in communication, University of California, San Diego.), Susan Kaiser (0000-0002-2081-7734, b Professor of Textiles and Clothing and Associate Dean for Human Health and Development, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis), Susan B Kaiser (0000-0002-6031-5157, Dean College), Tania Hammidi (c Research Associate in Textiles and Clothing, University of California, Davis)
Año1996
Volumen31
Número1-2
Páginas83-107
Fecha de publicación1996-06-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v31n01_06
PMID8827494
OpenAlexW1994303968
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas7

This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays and lesbians occupy, and often occupy differently, based on self positionality within gay cultures, within commodity capital, and in relation to gender-specific discourse. Based on in-depth interviews with 60 lesbians and gays, this paper illuminates the ambivalences gays and lesbians express in embracing 'subculture' and 'target market' as categories to establish differences and fashion identities within the current cultural economy

Business · Capital (architecture · Clothing · Commodity · Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Geography · Political science · Queer · Social science · Social space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Style (visual arts · Subculture (biology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies