FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Punk Singer, Riot Grrrl, Punk Subculture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Stephanie Patrick

Document Summary

Mixing girly culture with punk (traditionally masculine) Diy feminism - anyone can be a feminsit. Music sparked punk subculture: more than music, also fashion, bondage, ideologies (see also hip-hop) Continued site of resistance; queer/punk bands today challenging sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, homophobia, white supremacy, capitalism, etc. Not all fandoms have equal voices, influence. Celebrating real womanhood (2nd wave) vs. gender as performance (3rd) Like slut, the term queer remains highly contested. Pop culture trends tend to change rather quickly. Meaning is never in the hands of the creator. Whatever a woman is is a social construct. Decoding = the process of making meaning. Viewers/consumers have agency and can make meaning. Audiences determine what the text means to them (they take what they need/like, ignore the rest) Producers of images do not determine meaning (which can result in unintended meanings) Early days of cinema vs. hays code (1930-1966) Queer coding (often of villains); reading between the lines .