Yr Beast

Gender Parrhesia and Punk Trans Womanhoods

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3946102
AutoresJay Szpilka (0000-0003-4490-4952, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen127
Número1
Páginas119-134
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0141778920970191
OpenAlexW3136888704
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas27

While the subject of women's activity in historical and contemporary punk scenes has attracted significant attention, the presence of trans women in punk has received comparatively little research, in spite of their increasing visibility and long history in punk. This article examines the conditions for trans women's entrance in punk and the challenges and opportunities that it offers for their self-assertion. By linking Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia with the way trans women in punk do their gender, an attempt is made at showing how the embodied experience of a trans woman making herself heard from the punk stage can serve as a site of 'gender pluralism

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Assertion · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Punk · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Latin American and Latino Studies · Music History and Culture · Philosophy