Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies

Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity

Gemma Commane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18535-7 (ISBN)

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What makes a woman ‘bad’ is commonly linked to certain ‘qualities’ or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies, Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled ‘bad’, sluts or dirty. Through a variety of case studies drawn from qualitative and original ethnographic research, she argues that ‘Bad Girls’ disrupt heterosexual normativity and contribute new embodied knowledge.

From neo-burlesque, sex-positive and queer performance art, to explicit entertainment and areas of popular culture; Commane situates ‘bad’ women as sites of power, possibility and success. Through the combination of case studies (Ms T, Empress Stah and RubberDoll, Mouse and Doris La Trine), Gemma Commane offers a challenge to those who think that sexual, slutty, bad, and dirty women are not worth listening to. Significantly, she unpicks the issues generated by women who are complicit in the subjugation, policing and marginalization of ‘other’ women, both in popular culture and in sites of subcultural resistance.

Dr Gemma Commane is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK. She is active in research in the fields of media and cultural studies, and gender and sexuality.

Series Editors’ Introduction
Introduction
1. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
2. Bad Girls Happen to Things
3. Magnification and the Unknown
4. RubberDoll: Success and the Significance of Sexual Otherness
5. Commodification of Cult and ‘Alterative’ Femininities
6. The Shadows of Safe Femininity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-18535-3 / 1350185353
ISBN-13	978-1-350-18535-7 / 9781350185357
Zustand	Neuware