240 P -
Bad Girls? Transforming and Performing Adolescence
Saturday, June 3, 2017: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM
BRESL 106 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Tamara Myers, Lehigh University
Session Abstract
This panel focuses on the way various forms popular culture portray women. One study explores the notions of femininity, meanness, female friendship, and popular culture through an examination of the 2 Broke Girls television series. The second study reflects on the history of the Riot Grrrls, a nationwide movement of young, punk feminists in the early 1990s, and considers what lessons historians and activists can learn from their work. The third study explores how the set of the movie Precious takes structural issues such as wealth, racial, and gender inequalities, and attempts to convey them behaviorally and ultimately in a strategic way that influences how the environment of the characters influences the way the viewer perceives those characters. The fourth study explores the global phenomenon of all-girl rock bands in the 1960s and, using sources such as oral interviews with surviving band members, memoirs, and sound and video recordings, argues that these bands shed new light on the history of adolescent girls and young women, who in the postwar era defied parental expectations, rejected gender norms, and embraced what has historically been considered the domain of boys and men.
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