Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Working Poor, Snoop Dogg, Heterosexism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Prof

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I"m a redneck woman i aint no high class broad -gretchen wilson the early 200s in nashville called the muzik mafiarebels w/i national scene. Gretchen wilson was born in mid illionois (not technically in the south) grew up in a trailer park spent formative yrs as a musician in missouri now based in nashville, tn highly successful commercial music career. Social power is consolidated by borrowing characteristics of race, sexuality, class and gender, according to the circumstances from the subject positions to which thet are seen to belong. (hubbs) The song is a gender inclusive statement of redneck pride and a call to twenty first century working consciousness, fine tiunes to distinctions of consumptions and self destruction . Produce our own classifying operations-calling yourself a redneck woman will reinforce the power of that label. Hubbs suggests that it is gretchen wilson"s transgression of gender, and flaunting of her class that allowed her to develop the powerful identity of redneck.