Tag Archives: Femininity
Farrugia, R. and T. Swiss. 2008. “Producing Producers: Women and Electronic/Dance Music.”
Farrugia, Rebekah and Thom Swiss. 2008. “Producing Producers: Women and Electronic/Dance Music.” Current Musicology 86(Fall): 79-99. Woman in introduction of study reported micro-aggression: theft of small piece of equipment (power strip) before her performance. Study attempts to identify barriers to women’s entry into E/DM production (in 2008, claimed as in infancy): networking with male producers, […]
Coates, N. 1997. “(R)Evolution Now? Rock and the Political Potential of Gender.”
Coates, Norma. 1997. “(R)Evolution Now? Rock and the Political Potential of Gender.” Pp. 50-64 in Sexing the Groove, edited by Sheila Whitely. New York: Routledge. The paradox arises – women’s consumption of phallic, masculinist rock which excludes them – does this evoke a complicity to this system? Rock as a space that discursively reinforces masculinity, […]
Bayton, M. 1997. “Women and the Electric Guitar.”
Bayton, Mavis. 1997. “Women and the Electric Guitar.” Pp. 37-49 in Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, edited by Sheila Whitely. New York: Routledge. “The lack of women guitarists in rock’s hall of fame is partly a result of the way in which women get written out of history and their contribution undervalued, but […]
Cohen, S. 1997. “Men Making a Scene: Rock Music and the Production of Gender.”
Cohen, Sara. 1997. “Men Making a Scene: Rock Music and the Production of Gender.” Pp. 17-36 in Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, edited by Sheila Whitely. New York: Routledge. “Within Euro-American cultures there tends to be a general assumption that rock music is male culture comprising male activities and styles. Women, meanwhile, tend […]
Whitely, S. 1997. “Introduction” to Sexing the Groove.
Whitely, Sheila. 1997. “Introduction.” Pp. xiii – xxxvi in Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, edited by Sheila Whitely. New York: Routledge. Analysis of popular music blending various disciplines, methodologies, foci; emergent (in 1997) literature – but increasingly popular/populated discipline, requiring further study during the (then-) rise of the Internet. Often, those who write […]
Houston, T.M. 2012. “The Homosocial Construction of Alternative Masculinities.”
Houston, Taylor Martin. 2012. “The Homosocial Construction of Alternative Masculinities: Men in Indie Rock Bands.” The Journal of Men’s Studies 20(2): 158-175. “while the men upheld certain hegemonic gender norms inside and outside of the scene, within the subculture they report constructing alternative masculinities through homosocial interactions and gender strategies involving their bodies and performances” […]
Ross, B. and K. Greenwell. 2005. “Spectacular Striptease: Performing the Sexual and Racial Other in Vancouver, B.C., 1945-1975.”
Ross, Becki and Kim Greenwell. 2005. “Spectacular Striptease: Performing the Sexual and Racial Other in Vancouver, B.C., 1945-1975. Journal of Women’s History 17(1): 137-164. Racialization of exotic dancing in response to nightlife geographies of 1970s BC. Notes difference of location of white and women of color within global/local erotic industries. Striptease as a highly competitive […]
Gunduz, B. 2003. “Rave as Carnival.”
Gunduz, Burcu. 2003. “Rave as Carnival.” Masters Thesis. Bilkent University. Contemporary rave scene as carnival-like demonstration: “where bodily suggestions in an unrestricted, non-official space taken into account from the point of communal grotesque body” (iii) — “where social borders and individual differences such as class and gender are destroyed and reconstructed in the ‘world upside […]
Wesely, J.K. 2002. “Growing Up Sexualized: Issues of Power and Violence in the Lives of Female Exotic Dancers.”
Wesely, Jennifer K. 2002. “Growing Up Sexualized: Issues of Power and Violence in the Lives of Female Exotic Dancers.” Violence against Women 8(10): 1182-1207. Female body constructed as “an object of (hetero)sexual desire in a patriarchal culture” (1182) – sexual objectification as major component/characteristic of female identity, serves as a tool of oppression (Bartky 1990; […]
Barnes, N. 2000. “Body Talk: Notes on Women and Spectacle in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival.”
Barnes, Natasha. 2000. “Body Talk: Notes on Women and Spectacle in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival.” Small Axe 7(March): 93-105. Shift in Trinidadian Carnival costuming marked by dramatic increase of women in the events, across races and classes – moving from elaborate theme costumes to “spandex and string bikinis” (93). Scanty women and sexualized undertones critiqued, mostly […]
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