Pin Up! the Subculture

Pin Up! the Subculture
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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
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ISBN-10 : 1433156806
ISBN-13 : 9781433156809
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Book Synopsis Pin Up! the Subculture by : Kathleen M. Ryan

Download or read book Pin Up! the Subculture written by Kathleen M. Ryan and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous. Sexy. All-American--or rather All-World--Girl. Pin Up! The Subculture is the first book to explore the contemporary international subculture of pin up, women (and men) who embrace vintage style, but not vintage values. Award-winning filmmaker and author Kathleen M. Ryan spent more than five years in the subculture. It's a world of cat eye makeup, carefully constructed hairstyles, and retro-inspired fashions. But it's also a world that embraces the ideals of feminism. Beauty, according to the pin up, is found not in body type or skin color, but in the confidence and sexual agency of the individual. Pin ups see their subculture as a way to exert empowerment and control of their own sexual and social identities--something that is part of the pin up's historical legacy. This lavishly illustrated book includes interviews with more than fifty international pin ups and helps readers to understand how they use social media and personal interactions to navigate thorny issues such as racism, sexism, homophobia, sizeism, and other difficult topics. Ryan demonstrates how even within subcultures, identity is far from homogeneous. Pin ups use the safety of their shared subcultural values to advocate for social and political change. A fascinating combination of cultural history, media studies, and oral history, Pin Up! The Subculture is the story about how a subculture is subverting and reviving an historic aesthetic for the twenty-first century.


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