Power, strength, and heavy metal music. When girls endorse masculinity codes

By Sophie Turbé
English

This paper describes female metal fans, seen through a musical taste that is gendering their image. By which process of identity construction do these female fans adopt values traditionally coded as masculine, such as strength, power and violence? The paper analyzes feminine views of metal music and shows how they manage to blur the gender limits.

Keywords

  • Women
  • Masculinity
  • Music
  • Heavy metal
  • Gender
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