Julie Clarke in man's suit jacket and Stetson, circa 1984? Photo: David PowellSince Mark has initiated his 'Walk Like a Man' series, I thought I'd throw something else into the mix, and NO, I'm not gay, transgendered or a Drag King. But I guess in the 80s everyone was playing around with gender.
Great Diane Arbus photograph here
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ReplyDeleteLove Diane Arbus photographs. The hair rollers and nail polish, so 'suburban woman' 1950s?
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Should just mention that although Dave took this photo I set it up because I was absolutely enthralled at the time by photographs of James Dean's smoking. I was undertaking a degree in Sociology at Swinburne (which I never finished) and had been reading Shulamith Firestone's 'The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution'
Read more: Shulamith Firestone Biography - family, children, parents, name, history, school, young, book, old, born, college, husband, house, time, year, sister, Founded Trio of Groups http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Ca-Fi/Firestone-Shulamith.html#ixzz1RYC2HeQq
and Germaine Greer's 'The Female Eunuch', so was new to feminist theory. Of course I had also lived through all the gender-bending music of the 70s and early 80s and was intrigued.
what does the pageviews counter count?
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ReplyDeleteDiane Arbus, Annie Hall, Calamity Jane & Marlene Dietrich...all truly great women who chose a quasi masculine sense of dress. Does fashion really have anything to do with it? Confidence in self allows us to change the rules?
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Fashion/style industries are all about protean bodies:
ReplyDeleteI'll make my heaven in a lady's lap, and deck my body in gay ornaments, and witch sweet ladies with my words and looks...I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, and set the murderous Machiavel to school.
W Shakespeare
Mark and Steve - shape shifting is a common theme throughout recorded history - but it is a marker of identity not always accepted by others who aren't involved in such endeavors.
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