Fashion and Sexual Identity, or why Recognition Matters

Samantha Brennan

In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett, Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 120–134 (2011) Copy BIBT_EX

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: The Sexual Citizen, Rights to Recognition, and Visibility as a Strategy.

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Samantha Brennan

University of Guelph

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Archival date: 2013-10-08
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Queer Theory in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

Keywords

fashion and sexual identity ‐ and why recognition matters individual style and fashion choices ‐ and what is being political about this questions, about political and ethical significance of fashion ‐ debates, sexual citizenship, identity politics, rights to recognition fashion, in context of political philosophy ‐ philosophers as a group, not taking fashion seriously fashion, and not worrying about fashion ‐ itself a sign of privilege sexual citizen, rights to recognition and visibility as a strategy ‐ in the context of sexual citizenship, and strategy of visibility Walker's chapter, “How to Recognize a Lesbian” ‐ visibility, from perspective of femme lesbian mainstream media ‐ paying attention to lesbian fashion Rooke's working‐class subjects, unable to fit in or to be recognized ‐ “They fell short of a recognizable lesbian habitus” fashion, boundary between public and private ‐ of significance, for moral and political philosophers

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9781444345568 9781405199902

DOI

10.1002/9781444345568.ch8

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