Helps me feel more like myself’
Navigating bodies, emotions and identity in Australian queer salons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12292575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Mccann (0000-0001-5734-6385, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1274-1292 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Place & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0966369x.2022.2096573 |
| OpenAlex | W4285092228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 45 |
While hair and beauty salons are often thought of as spaces that reproduce normative ideals of gender and sexuality, the past decade has seen an increase in salons catering specifically to LGBTQ+ clientele. More broadly, research has shown that far from only treating ‘surface’ concerns, salons in general are sites of intensified affect, making them a unique space of entangled body, emotional, and identity work. This article draws on interviews with salon workers from 2017 and client responses to a survey about salons during COVID-19 from 2020, conducted in Australia. This article gives particular focus to salons catering to the LGBTQ+ community (‘queer salons’), as well as data from salon clients that identify as LGBTQ+. Drawing on this dataset this article offers insight into how queer salons challenge our expectations of what hair and beauty salons can do for queer precarity in terms of physical, emotional and identity vulnerability and trouble ideas of the salon as a space which merely reinforces normative ideals of beauty. Furthermore, this article considers how salons might provide a sense of safety and belonging for some LGBTQ+ people, especially within the context of a pandemic
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Context (archaeology · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Lesbian · Normative · Political science · Queer · Salon · Sociology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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Postfeminist media culture
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |