Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies - Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity

What makes a woman ''bad'' is commonly linked to certain ''qualities'' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies , Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled ''bad'', sluts or dirty. Through a variety of case studies drawn from qualitative and original ethnographic research, she argues that ''Bad Girls'' disrupt heterosexual normativity and contribute new embodied knowledge.From neo-burlesque, sex-positive and queer performance art, to explicit entertainment and areas of popular culture; Commane situates ''bad'' women as sites of power, possibility and success. Through the combination of case studies (Ms T, Empress Stah and RubberDoll, Mouse and Doris La Trine), Gemma Commane offers a challenge to those who think that sexual, slutty, bad, and dirty women are not worth listening to. Significantly, she unpicks the issues generated by women who are complicit in the subjugation, policing and marginalization of ''other'' women, both in popular culture and in sites of subcultural resistance.>

Product details

• Authors: Gemma Commane
• Assisted by: Claire Nally (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781350185357
• ISBN: 978-1-350-18535-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality