Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity
Seiten
2020
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-126-7 (ISBN)
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-126-7 (ISBN)
The Victorians posited that cleanliness was next to Godliness and nowhere was this association more apparent than when it was applied to women.
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.
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 | 16.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Library of Gender and Popular Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78831-126-4 / 1788311264 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78831-126-7 / 9781788311267 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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