![]() Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. Yet the fact that these popular musicians are not necessarily self-proclaimed feminists makes the discussion of feminist discourse in their songs and videos even more interesting. The concerns range from a controversial name like “Pussycat Dolls” to how these Although the message of the songs is feminist, the musicians are problematic from a feminist point of view. Acloser look at the songs revealed that women of their time still face the same struggle to redefine the meaning of the word ‘woman’ to represent themselves that were faced by early women’s rights activists from the seventeenthĪnd eighteenth centuries. ![]() Thus, the primary question is not whether the musicians are feminist or not. This chapter looks at five songs from the popular music genre in terms of the feminist discourse, or rhetoric, in them. Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media. In: Marion Gymnich, Kathrin Ruhl and Klaus Scheunemann (eds.).
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