Rockin' Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock

Schippers, Mimi

ISBN 10: 0813530741 ISBN 13: 9780813530741

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Given the long history of feminism and its contested place in popular culture, important, practical questions arise: What effect, if any, have feminist ideas and practices had on the lives of young men and women who grew up with them? How do these individuals negotiate the realities of gender in their daily lives?

In Rockin’ Out of the Box, Mimi Schippers, employing the crucial feminist insight that gender is a constantly shifting performance and not an essential quality related to sex, explores the gender roles, assumptions, and transgressions of the men and women involved in the alternative hard rock scene. The author focuses on this sizable section of rock music both because it is widely inclusive of men and women and because it explicitly adopted feminism as its point of departure from mainstream music. Schippers uses the innovative term gender maneuvering to explain her observations that gender and sexuality are negotiated and always changing features of social relations. This process, she demonstrates, operates as a cultural practice and as an individual strategy of resistance to socially prescribed gender roles.

Schippers, who spent more than two years frequenting alternative hard rock clubs and concerts in Chicago, conducted extensive interviews with fans as well as musicians, including Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7, Kat Bjelland and Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, Rose of Poster Children, Louise Post and Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, and Liz Davis and Valerie Agnew of 7 Year Bitch. As it documents the development of a rock music genre that has so far received little academic attention, this book  also demonstrates how this musical culture contributes to our understanding of the daily practices of gender relations among young people.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mimi Schippers

Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison)

206 Newcomb Hall
Phone: (504)862-3011
Fax: (504)865-5544
Email: mimi@tulane.edu
Website: http://www.marxindrag.com/Marxindrag/Vitae.html

Research Interests

Sexuality, Gender, Social Theory, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Culture, Polyamory, Non-Monogamies

Current Research Projects

I am currently working on a study of the relationship between race, gender, class, and non-monogamies in the history and culture of New Orleans. Combining archival, ethnographic, and interview methods, I am comparing and contrasting the practice of placage, the commercial sex industry, sex tourism, and polyamory as they take shape in the socio-historical and cultural trajectories of New Orleans. My main research question is: What are the relationships between race, class, and gender inequality, New Orleans’ sexual cultures, and non-monagamy.

Selected Publications

Mimi Schippers. Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future Polyqueer Sexualities. New York University Press. 2016

Mimi Schippers. Rockin’ Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock. Rutgers University Press. 2002.

Mimi Schippers and Erin Grayson Sapp. “Reading Pulp Fiction: Embodied Femininity and Power Second and Third Wave Feminist Theory.” Feminist Theory 13(1), 2012.

Mimi Schippers. Third Wave Rebels in a Second Wave World: Polyamory, Gender, and Power. In Donna King and Carrie Smith (Eds), Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Kick Their A@#$!: Feminist Perspectives on the Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy. Vanderbilt University Press. 2012.

Mimi Schippers. “Doing Power/Doing Difference: Negotiations of Race and Gender in a Mentoring Program.” Symbolic Interaction 31(1), 2008.

Mimi Schippers. “Recovering the Feminine Other: Femininity, Masculinity, and Gender Hegemony.” Theory and Society 36. 2007.

Courses Taught

Polyqueer Sexualities (GESS 4930)
GenderSociety (SOCI 1040)
Introduction the GenderSexuality Studies (GESS 2900)
The Sociology of Sexuality (SOCI 6070)
Advanced Sexuality and Queer Theory (GESS 4950)
Advanced Gender and Feminist Theory (GESS 4940)
Topics in the Sociology of Gender (SOCI 6060)

Product Description:

Book by Schippers Mimi

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813530741
• ISBN 13: 9780813530741
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero di pagine: 209