gender maneuvering in alternative Hard Rock
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schippers, Mimi
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3812 - B
- Thesaurus
- popmuziek, populaire cultuur, gender, seksualiteit, lichamen, feminisme
- Description
- Mimi Schippers explores the gender roles, assumptions and transgressions of men and women involved in the alternative hard rock scene. She uses the term 'gender maneuvering' to explain how gender and sexuality are negotiated and always changing features of social relations. She argues that this process operates as a cultural practice and as an individual strategy of resistance to socially prescribed gender roles. Schippers conducted interviews with fans as well as musicians, including Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7, Kat Bjelland and Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, Rose Marshack of Poster Children, Louise Post and Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, and Liz Davis and Valerie Agnew of 7 Year Bitch.