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Hildegard Westerkamp's (1990) composition École Polytechnique is an artistic response to one of Canada's most profoundly disturbing mass murders, the 1989 slaying of fourteen women in Montreal, Quebec. Using the theoretical model, derived from Haraway, of the cyborg body, and analyzing the import of the mixed media (voices, instruments and electroacoustic tape) incorporated in the music, the authors examine the impact this work has had on some of those who have heard it and performed it, based on the responses of choristers and listeners in several studies. The authors explored how those who engaged significantly with the music, (including those who had no personal association with the actual events of the 1989 massacre), were able to make relevant connections between their own experience and the composition itself, embrace these connections and their disturbing resonances, and thereby experience meaningful emotional growth.
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Marilyn Lerner’s audio-art composition “They’re All in Families” (1998) re-works a sound clip from a virulently homophobic message left on an answering machine, turning hate-speech back on itself to expose the rhythms and textures of verbal violence.
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Le quartier chaud de Montréal a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, mais sa culture de cabaret n'a jamais été examinée dans la perspective des artistes transsexuelles et travesties qui l'ont rendu si populaire. Par le biais des récits provenant des danseuses elles-mêmes, Viviane Namaste peint un portrait honnête de quatorze transsexuelles - danseuses, chanteuses, magiciennes ou effeuilleuses - et jette un regard dans les coulisses du monde dans lequel vivent et travaillent ces hommes devenus femmes. Les années soixante et soixante-dix ont été des décennies de changement social au Québec. C'était du spectacle! raconte l'histoire de la première génération de transsexuelles ayant subi une chirurgie d'inversion de sexe. Namaste examine les conditions de travail dans les cabarets, la prostitution, les abus de pouvoir des policiers à l'égard des transsexuelles, le rôle du crime organisé dans la vie nocturne de la ville et l'accès aux soins de la santé. C'était du spectacle! offre un rare survol de la culture urbaine de Montréal, présenté dans ses propres mots par l'une de ses plus importantes communautés artistiques.
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Un livre attendu, celui de Nathalie Simard, une jeune femme courageuse qui est devenue le symbole de toutes les femmes abusées, dont Michel Vastel signera l’histoire. Un témoignage touchant écrit par un journaliste d’envergure qui racontera l’histoire d’une femme, mais aussi celle de sa famille et de son entourage tout au long des années où elle a travaillé dans le monde du spectacle. Il y sera question de son enfance, son adolescence, jusqu’au dénouement médiatique de son histoire qui a éclaté dans les journaux en 2004 et en 2005.
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Pretty in Punk combines autobiography, interviews, and sophisticated analysis to create the first insider's examination of the ways punk girls resist gender roles and create strong identities.Why would an articulate, intelligent, thoughtful young women shave off most of her hair, dye the remainder green, shape it into a mohawk, and glue it onto her head? What attracts girls to male-dominated youth subcultures like the punk movement? What role does the subculture play in their perceptions of themselves, and in their self-esteem? How do girls reconcile a subcultural identity that is deliberately coded “masculine” with the demands of femininity?Research has focused on the ways media and cultural messages victimize young women, but little attention has been paid to the ways they resist these messages. In Pretty in Punk, Lauraine Leblanc examines what happens when girls ignore these cultural messages, parody ideas of beauty, and refuse to play the games of teenage femininity. She explores the origins and development of the punk subculture, the processes by which girls decide to “go punk,” patterns of resistance to gender norms, and tactics girls use to deal with violence and harassment.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. The price they pay for resisting femininity can be steep—girls tell of parental rejection, school expulsion, institutionalization, and harassment. Leblanc illuminates punk girls' resistance to adversity, their triumphs over tough challenges, and their work to create individual identities in a masculine world.
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Girls in male-dominated youth subcultures confront ideologies of gender which remain largely invisible and often tacitly accepted in many women's everyday lives. Punk girls choose to construct their femininity within a highly male-dominated, "masculinist," context; girls are present in such youth subcultures, but the masculine definition of their norms problematizes their participation. Thus, punk girls struggle to accommodate female gender norms within subcultural identities which are deliberately coded as "masculine." Although young women in America encounter the norms of the female gender role on a daily basis, punk girls' negotiations between the norms of femininity and those of punk open these prescriptions to critical examination which they might not otherwise be accorded. In this dissertation, I explore accounts of punk girls' engagements with both mainstream and subcultural gender norms. In constructing this account of girls' lived experiences in the punk subculture, I rely primarily upon the phenomenology, or experiential narrative, of punk girls' everyday lives. I elicited these accounts within the context of conducting participant observation m the punk scenes of four North American cities (Atlanta, Montreal, New Orleans, and San Francisco) from 1993 to 1995, conducting ethnographic interviews with forty punk girls. In the following, I explore various facets of punk girls' engagements with gender norms, including punk girls' narratives of engagement with the subculture; the construction of punk as a discourse of masculinity; punk girls' stylistic, behavioral, and discursive reconstructions of femininity; punk girls' experiences of public harassment and sexual harassment, and their strategic responses to these. I argue that these girls use the punk subculture in order to carry out resistances to varied forms of gender oppression, thereby developing stronger self-concepts in the face of adversity.