Body Style

The body has been analyzed, theorized, and politicized. However, the subcultural body has been primarily sensationalized. "Body Fashion", the first book in the new "Subcultural Style" series, does not attempt to compete with these sensationalized accounts rather it reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework on which a sense of self and a subcultural identity is built. "Body Style" is the result of over eleven years of research with urban subcultures from North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, such as Goths, Modern Primitives, Neo-Tribals, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Japanese Lolitas, Cosplayers, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body fashions, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.