| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1-8 -- Chapter 1 GENDER AND POPULAR CULTURE: THE CASE OF HEAVY METAL -- Heavy Metal and Women -- The Question of Gender -- The Homosociality of Heavy Metal -- A Look Ahead -- Chapter 2 DOING GENDER: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Woman as the Other -- Gender Performativity -- Objectification -- Doing Gender -- Chapter 3 HYPERMASCULINITY AND HEAVY METAL -- Social Structure and Subculture: Hypermasculinity in Work and Play -- Studying Heavy Metal |
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Gender in Heavy Metal -- Implications -- Chapter 4 INTERROGATING HEAVY METAL: FAN PERCEPTIONS ON GENDER -- Interviews -- Research Questions and Data Analysis -- Chapter 5 METALHEAD: MUSIC AS IDENTITY -- The Metal Self -- Us and Them -- Chapter 6 METAL WOMAN: BEING AND PLAYING GENDER -- Being Woman in Heavy Metal -- Playing Gender: Between Moshing and Flashing -- Chapter 7 DEGREES OF METAL: VARIATION AND CHANGE -- Styles of Heavy Metal -- Heavy Metal History -- Chapter 8 TOWARD HEAVY METAL FEMINISM? -- Women -- Gender -- Feminism -- Community and Society -- End Matter -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Heavy metal (Music) -- Social aspects
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Women rock music fans.
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Women rock musicians.
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Women rock music fans
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Women rock musicians
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Deflem, Mathieu, author.
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| ISBN |
9781839981340 |
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1839981342 |
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9781839981357 |
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1839981350 |
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