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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Union College

Honors Theses

2015

Punk

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The Role Of Women In Punk, Katherine Barner Jun 2015

The Role Of Women In Punk, Katherine Barner

Honors Theses

This thesis, entitled “The Role of Women in Punk,” is an interdisciplinary thesis of the Political Science and Anthropology Department of Union College. To come to the conclusions of this thesis, I read a variety academic papers and research; numerous books on theory, punk, and feminism; and performed fieldwork at punk concerts and original punk venues of the 1970’s in Albany and New York City. I combined my own findings from my fieldwork with the historical and theoretical analysis of other academics and writers. Through the combination of political/anthropological theory, historical analysis, and my independent fieldwork, I was able to …