• DOI:10.1177/0891243204264421
Corpus ID: 11244993

“So Full of Myself as a Chick”

@article{Wilkins2004SoFO,
  title={“So Full of Myself as a Chick”},
  author={A. Wilkins},
  journal={Gender \& Society},
  year={2004},
  volume={18},
  pages={328 - 349}
}

• A. Wilkins
• Published 2004
• Sociology
• Gender & Society

Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and Internet postings, this article analyzes gender in a local Goth scene. These Goths use the confines of the subcultural scene, where they are relatively safe from outsider view, and the scene’s celebration of sexuality as resources to resist mainstream notions of passive femininity. This article probes the struggles of women in this Goth scene to examine the broader possibilities and limitations of strategies of active feminine sexuality in… Expand