I’m as much middle class as Obama is a communist.
Tag: class
Look What The Cat Dragged In: Gender, Sexuality, and Authenticity in 1980s Glam Metal
Asserting Humanity Through Transgression: Gender, Race and Heavy Metal in Los Angeles
Women of color and heavy metal, interesting stuff
Asserting Humanity Through Transgression: Gender, Race and Heavy Metal in Los Angeles
There Needs To Be More Class Analysis Of Hair Metal
It’s a proletarian genre, goddamnit, and I want more and better theories about it.
Cry Tough: Glam Metal on the Sunset Strip
Stuff on gender performance in glam metal and class a bit
Gender performance and class in strip clubs
Man, there’s like no discussion of class in the US
Everyone thinks they’re middle class. WTF is that about?
‘Celebrity chav’: Fame, femininity and social class
I need access to this article
You know GNC men who work pink collar jobs
Are still working class. People seem to want to make all working class dudes big manly longshoremen, and steel workers, but like guess what? The effete dude doing your hair is also a prole if he doesn’t own the salon, and may spend a lot of his career on his feet and exposed to noxious chemicals… so… yeah?
The idea that working class men have to be big and brawny, imitations of Stanley from A Street Car Named Desire is kinda fucked up.
Working Girl 1988
Note the difference between secretary and boss, note the difference in types of femininity.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 