ALTERNATIVE FEMININITIES: BODY, AGE AND IDENTITY

ALTERNATIVE FEMININITIES: BODY, AGE AND IDENTITY

by SAMANTHA HOLLAND

Part of DRESS, BODY, CULTURE

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Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alternative Femininities, Samantha Holland unpacks the myth of model womanhood and considers how a particular group of real women define and practise femininity. These women, who see themselves as alternative', modify and su bvert popular images of femininity. The choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modific.

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