Description
Book SynopsisWINNER! NCA Diane Hope Book of the Year Award.
Dangerous. Sexy. All-Americanor rather All-WorldGirl. 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 identitiessomething 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 read
Table of Contents
List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Introduction – The Curious Case of the Pin Up – Circuits of Community: The Intersection of Oral History, Subculture, and Interactive Documentary – Remaking Marilyn: The Pin Up and Contemporary Vintage Re-appropriation – The "F" Word: Visual Pleasure, Agency, and Feminism – "Symbolic" Resistance or a Less Toxic Feminism? – Let’s Talk about the Confederate Flag in the Room: Intersectionality in Pin Up – "Go Eat a Cheeseburger," "Gorditas," and Other Sizeist Fandangos: Controlling the Circuit of Culture in Pin Up – Negotiating Representation – When Best Intentions Go Awry – Epilogue: Finding a Way Forward – Index.
