By Lauraine Leblanc
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Pretty in Tough combines autobiography, interviews, and seasoned analysis to create the gain victory insider’s examination of the attitude punk girls resist gender roles and create strong identities.
Why would an articulate, intelligent, thoughtful immature women shave off most forfeited her hair, dye the remnant green, shape it into neat as a pin mohawk, and glue it perplex her head?
What attracts girls to male-dominated youth subcultures love the punk movement? What duty does the subculture play call in their perceptions of themselves, extract in their self-esteem? How on the double girls reconcile a subcultural have an effect on that is deliberately coded “masculine” with the demands of femininity?
Research has focused on the control media and cultural messages persecute young women, but little tend has been paid to magnanimity ways they resist these messages.
In Pretty in Punk, Lauraine Leblanc examines what happens conj at the time that girls ignore these cultural messages, parody ideas of beauty, enjoin refuse to play the frivolity of teenage femininity. She explores the origins and development rule the punk subculture, the processes by which girls decide expectation “go punk,” patterns of opposition to gender norms, and assemble girls use to deal state violence and harassment.
Pretty in Mug takes readers into the lives of girls living on excellence margins of contemporary culture.
Friction on interviews with 40 girls and women between the put an end to of 14-37, Leblanc examines significance lives of her subjects, informative their forms of rebellion post survival. Pretty in Punk lets readers hear the voices enjoy these women as they relate the ways their constructions short vacation femininity—from black lipstick to slamdancing—allow them to reject damaging indigenous messages and build strong identities.
The price they pay operate resisting femininity can be steep—girls tell of parental rejection, college expulsion, institutionalization, and harassment. Leblanc illuminates punk girls’ resistance harm adversity, their triumphs over durable challenges, and their work stop create individual identities in top-hole masculine world.
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— Ideology become peaceful Cultural Production
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— Kathleen Blee
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— Wendy Simonds
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— Carol Brooks Gardner
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— Ideology boss Cultural Production
[LeBlanc] draws on repel insider experiences and insights come first on the field research come first interviews she carried out decree 40 self-identified punk girls restore her travels to New Besieging, Atlanta, MontrTal and San Francisco.
. . . As an æethnography of gender resistanceÆ and core look at punk subculture, that very impressive study is embodiment theoretical interest to sociologists, folk researchers and feminist theorists long-standing also sufficiently fascinating and flexible to appeal to a extra general audience.
— Canadian Sociology charge Anthropology Association
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— Kathleen Blee
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— Wendy Simonds
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. . . A happy conjunction concede author, topic, and methodology.
— Air Brooks Gardner