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Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney
Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney
Sociology Student Work Collection
Heavy metal music is experienced as a vibrant and empowering global community, but its history, structure, and practice reflect and recreate larger patterns of masculine hegemony within the metal world. As the metal ethos is centered around the practice and affirmation of social transgression, some are pushing the boundaries of metal itself to become a vehicle for critical social discourse around structural inequalities, including gendered hegemony.
Princesses & Superheroes, Tiara Fore
Princesses & Superheroes, Tiara Fore
Sociology Student Work Collection
As long as they have been around, princesses and superheroes have been the most prominent figures in children's media. This project focuses on how the gender expectations in this media affects children and how they participate in and see the world.
Fashion Without Gender, Grace Chapek
Fashion Without Gender, Grace Chapek
Sociology Student Work Collection
This project looks at the growing popularity of genderless fashion. From childhood to adulthood, fashion is used to express personal style and preferences, removing binary gender categorization from apparel allows for greater freedom and ease of expression for people of all genders.