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...Look what's on the cover," she said. "What," indeed. At least the contents behind that now-infamous cover of England's Best Advertisement for Fashion Euthanasia couldn't make me feet any worse than I was feeling already, so I took the plunge into "Androgynous Zones" by Peter Engel...
After running down a Who's Who of 1980s personalities undergoing sexual identity crises. Engel consults various social scientists whom only the victim of a bad Social Studies seminar would ever have read. The androgyny rating is a reflection of the quality of our society, their spiel goes, and an admirable result of the breakdown of sexual barriers. Some blithe comments on Calvin Klein underwear, David Bowie, Boy George, and Harvey Fierstein are marshalled to support his belief that the sexes are converging, but Engel blows it in a big was when he use Prunce as an example of androgyny...
...cover story, "Androgynous Zones," written by Peter Engel '81, describes a new phenomenon of cross-sexual fashion is society, from movies to music to department stores...
...Author Engel is in Asia and could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...cover photo, taken from the June 1984 issue of Rolling Stone, was chosen because it "epitomized a lot of things Peter Engel said in his article, such as the mass merchandising of androgyny," Bethell said. Also, he added, the editors felt it was the "most beautiful" choice...