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Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, And Performing Normativity, Valerie Pollock
Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, And Performing Normativity, Valerie Pollock
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
As a popular culture subject, Taylor Swift is an example of a widely circulated image that adheres to the guidelines for “appropriate” girlhood, innocence, and feminine performance. The proliferation of Swift’s identity as a virginal, delicate girl makes Swift the successful pop music figure that can “save” the troubled young girl of today. This thesis grapples with Swift’s image as an artist and addresses the ways that she often stands in as the example for imagined “appropriate” femininity. Swift’s image relies on ideas about innocence and normativity that are directly linked to markers of whiteness without ever having to explicitly …