Reading this book for work and so far it’s really interesting.
It traces the post WWI #gender upheaval of the 1920s the following clamping back down post WWII and how this suppression fostered the window of gender revolution in fashion again in the late 60s before the closing back down in the 80s.
The book also discusses the cultural baggage and meaning that #Unisex carries vs terms like “#allgender”; the modern idea of gender vs the older “sex-role” as seen in in The Feminine Mystique (published in 1963)—and how generational assumptions and change in historical meaning between the terms of sex and gender greatly shift the understanding between social age groups of modern queerness, #fashion, presentation, and #accessibility.
