Pretty in punk : girls' gender resistance in a boys' subculture

Brook Bolen; Lauraine Leblanc

DOI:10.2307/2654352

Corpus ID: 143624708

Pretty in punk : girls' gender resistance in a boys' subculture

@article{Bolen2001PrettyIP,
  title={Pretty in punk : girls' gender resistance in a boys' subculture},
  author={Brook Bolen and Lauraine Leblanc},
  journal={Contemporary Sociology},
  year={2001},
  volume={30},
  pages={63}
}

Brook Bolen, Lauraine Leblanc

Published 2001

Sociology

Contemporary Sociology

Pretty in Punk takes readers into the lives of girls living on the margins of contemporary culture. Drawing on interviews with 40 girls and women between the ages of 14-37, Leblanc examines the lives of her subjects, illuminating their forms of rebellion and survival. Pretty in Punk lets readers hear the voices of these women as they describe the ways their constructions of femininity-from black lipstick to slamdancing-allow them to reject damaging cultural messages and build strong identities… CONTINUE READING

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