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Pop Culture Feminists besides Pink?

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 21:58

I am doing a little introductory presentation to my seminar group (I'm a mature student) this week on feminist literary and cultural theory. I have started chronologically with Mary Wollstonecraft, then Virginia woolf, then Kate Millet and finally (so far) Germaine Greer.

I have been inspired by the thread on here today about Pink, so will include the Stupid Girls lyrics. Any other feminist contemporary figures I can refer to, to keep the interest of the kids?

I am putting two images on my handouts this one and the one at the bottom of this blog page

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BertieBotts · 25/02/2011 23:15

Oh sorry. I forgot to find examples of KT Tunstall, having just realised she's currently touring. Sold out in my local town sadly :( But playing in Birmingham on the 3rd March :) Trying to work out if I can stretch to the tickets now...

BertieBotts · 25/02/2011 23:11

My media A Level WAS a bad idea. The teachers were terrible and I walked out after getting fed up with constant tittering and

southeastastra · 25/02/2011 22:57

you could have more artists and desingers rather than pop groups though

middle class girls don't really do that now do they when punk women bands generally were a bit posh Grin

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AliceWorld · 25/02/2011 22:49

"Donald Wahlberg was a member of New Kids on the Block. He is an actor and has appeared in The Sixth Sense, Saw II, Saw III, amongst others."

I knew we were cool Grin

Tell them about the days before the interweb too...

AliceWorld · 25/02/2011 22:48

(Bertie, there is nothing wrong with a media A' level. Don't let that subject bashing get to you. It's crap.)

Isn't someone from NKOTB now an actor? (Trying to help increase your cool factor here)

razors · 25/02/2011 22:47

This is hard isn't it???? Here we are in 2011 struggling to find independent strong minded women in the pop industry :(

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:46

The same year I lost my virginity Wink. Yes, I could be their mother. Although I don't look old enough. Grin

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:45

Yep my new friends were born in 91 and 92.

Wink
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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:44

Well, they might like some of The Word clips I suppose. We can pretend that they're impressed, eh.

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BertieBotts · 25/02/2011 22:44

I'm 22 and wouldn't have heard of Spitting Image had we not covered it in Media A Level (Yes I know, Media A Level... nobody told me it was a bad idea.) Only have a vague idea of NKOTB. Those are both 80s things - remember your students will have been born in the early 90s! Grin I've definitely heard of Jo Brand.

Ditto Ani DiFranco - heard of her through MN and love her but most people my age wouldn't have heard of her.

I love KT Tunstall and she comes across as pretty confident, independent, not specifically feminist but nothing unfeminist about her either (if that makes sense at all.) Will find a couple of good examples.

AliceWorld · 25/02/2011 22:42

But remember retro is cool too. They're secretly impressed Wink

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:42

Yeah Tracey Emin, good one. Its not meant to be anything to do with contemporary culture, I just thought it would help their understanding and be more appealing to them after going on about Mary Wollestonecraft.

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:41

They are lovely to my face, but I be they do that accompanied by this face Hmm when I've gone. They piss themselves at my 90s house cds in the car. bastards

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southeastastra · 25/02/2011 22:41

lily allen and pink make me Hmm a bit

southeastastra · 25/02/2011 22:40

if it were for pop culture can't you have someone like tracey emin

AliceWorld · 25/02/2011 22:38

It is indeed. Well they should have heard of The Word! I vote you do a talk for a whole hour and make sure by the end of it they know all we think they should Grin. And if anyone tries to stop you just keep talking.

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:37

Have added them Wink.

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SpringHeeledJack · 25/02/2011 22:37

Lily Allen

plus, I reckon, Gaga

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:33

You know what, I know exactly what that is just from seeing Terry Christian, its her with her fanny out isn't it.

They so won't have heard of The Word!!!! Grin

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AliceWorld · 25/02/2011 22:29
If you've not seen it before, watch to the end.

('92! god I'd old!)

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suwoo · 25/02/2011 22:29

Thanks Alice, loving your linking of Lady Gaga to the blurred themes.

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