Girls, girlhood, and popular music

Published In

Journal of Popular Music Studies

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

12-28-2016

Subjects

Popular music -- History and criticism, Mass media and girls, Girls in popular culture

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, here is an excerpt from the Introduction:
In the summer of 2013, GQ Magazine published a cover profile of One Direction that, in the words of one feminist critic, read "like a sexist bingo card." Describing the band's audience as "rabid, knicker-wetting banshee[s] who will tear off [their] own ears in hysterical fervour when presented with the objects of [their] fascinations," the article rehearsed the stereotypical portrait of girl fans as hysterical, driven by uncontrolled sexual urges, and completely bereft of critical discernment...

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Copyright © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved

Description

As co-authors of the introduction and editors of the special issue, Dougher and Pecknold worked as an equal partnership. Their names appear here alphabetically by last name.

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DOI

10.1111/jpms.12190

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40724

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