Women's Studies 2164A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Heteronormativity, Pantsuit, Ice Skating
15 May 2019
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What makes fashion so remarkable is that it has zero regard for heteronormative ideas man and woman do not apply. about men and women, masculine and feminine. In fact, it offers one of the only cultural spaces there is for variant models of sexed subjectivities. In fashion, the usual categories of: models who look androgynous. Saw fashion as exploitative and oppressive: but misses out on the playfulness of fashion and the extent to which playing with gender norms can undermine them or clich d notions of obedient, heterosexual femininity. They offer another vision of femininity, one that has at its core the idea that the feminine has nothing. Over the top flamboyant femininity: people criticized if she was too muscular provides ample evidence that those ideas were a fiction to start with. In doing so, it undermines the social contract. However, because fashion is feminine, it is marginalized and excluded, and its.
