The Negative Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Female Performers in Popular Music

• A device by which one performs an intentional, structured process of intellectual deliberation.
• Used by Einstien to determine the Theory of Relativity.

What is a Stereotype?

Oxford English Dictionary Definition:

"a fixed idea or image that many people have of a particular type of person or thing, but which is often not true in reality"

Despite Oxford English Dictionary highlighting that stereotypes are often not true, they can still govern what is expected of people in society and culture based on certain attributes.

Philosophy

"Docile Body" Theory - Foucault

Gaze Theory - Laura Mulvey

Ann Oakley - Sex, Gender and Society

Ann Oakley

“In word association females tend to choose words for articles of dress, personal adornment, colours, aesthetic appraisal, domestic things and happenings, and words indicating a ‘kind’ and ‘sympathetic’ social orientation. Conversely, male preference is for words describing outdoor phenomena, activity and adventure, science and machinery, and political, business and commercial enterprises”

Lyrical Analysis

Bratmobile - Stab: "Stab me and F**K the wounds" and "You shut me off"

Hole - Doll Parts: "It stands for knife" & "I fake it so real, I am beyond fake”

Lyrical

Analysis

Joan Jett - Love is Pain: "I know you hate and love me"

Hole - Doll Parts: "I love him so much it turns to hate"

Final Thought to End...

"I look forward to a day when there will be as many women playing electric guitar in bands as men... I want to see an end to sexist constraints on women... In a non-sexist world half of all electric guitarists would be women" (Bayton, 1997, p. 48)

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