Body Style

Body Style 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 Where Individuals Build A Sense Of Self And Subcultural Identity. Drawing On Specific Subcultural Examples And Interviews With Subculture Members, Body Style Explores The Subcultural Body And Its Style Within Global Culture. Body Style Is The Result Of Over Eleven Years Of Research Examining These Intersections Within Specific Urban Subcultures, Including Urban Tribalists, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skates, And Others. Divided Into Three Main Sections On Subcultural Body History, Subcultural Body Identity And Subcultural Body Styles, 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-- Introduction To Subcultural Body Style. Toward A Working Definition Of Subculture -- Dress, Body Modification, And The Subcultural Body Style -- Introduction(s) Into Subcultural Research -- The Urban Tribal Movement And Subcultural Body Style -- Introducing Subcultural Body Style -- Subcultural Body Style And Dress Research -- Summary -- Subcultural Body Style History. Historic Body Styles -- The Body And Dress -- History Of The Modern Primitive Body Style Within The Urban Tribal Movement -- Implants -- Summary -- Subcultural Body Style And Identity. Subcultural Body Style -- Displayed Body -- Social Body -- Primal Body -- Ritualized Body -- Spiritual Body -- Phenomenological Or Lived Body -- Summary -- Subcultural Body Style. Subcultural Body Style Guidelines -- Subcultural Body Style As Visual Culture -- Noise : Subcultural Body Style Nonverbal Communication -- Subcultural Body Style As Material Culture -- Marketing The Subcultural Body -- Subcultural Body Style : Modern Primitives And The Body Renaissance -- Summary -- Future Of Subcultural Body Style. Fashioning The Subcultural Body Style -- Subcultural Reactions -- Body Technologies Old And New -- Needles, Hooks, And Blood-- Oh My! -- It's Real To Me -- Anonymity -- Church Of Body Modification -- Mediated Body -- Summary. Theresa M. Winge. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.