SOAN 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Postfeminism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2400
• Professor: c

Document Summary

Park gang: group of 14 and 15 yo amateur female skaters in vancouver, learned that being the only girls at the skate park singled them out for harassment. Poser: wears the right skater clothes, carries a skateboard, but does not actually skate. 2: as a result of their positioning as skaters, the park gang also worked toward an embodied resignification of girlhood that challenged not just the skater boys, but the traditional femininity of other girls at the park. Kickflipping femininity: skateboarding as an embodied resignification of girlhood. Members of the park gang actively worked to resist bun girl femininity. Park gang: took pride in being individuals with unique personalities who took pride in being different fun and alternative. Bun girl: no defining characteristics, care what other people think, purposely subordinate to boys. Park gang thought the self conscious behaviour of the bun girls was too typical and gave girls a bad name.