“Check On It”

Durham, Aisha

doi:10.1080/14680777.2011.558346

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“…which sets it within a masculinist discourse; rap, particularly gangster rap, is frequently associated with an overtly misogynistic and violent masculinity, with women being viewed solely as objects of male desire (Dibben, 1999:345;Kubrin, 2005:306;Skeggs, 1994:110). Durham (2012) argues that popular music is permeated with this hip-hop vision of hypermasculinity, wealth display, and sexually available women. This combination of the genre, and the dominance of the two male voices suggests that Blurred Lines is encouraging listeners to view the pursuit of sexual gratification from the subject position of a heterosexual male, whose masculinity can be considered at times overtly misogynistic (but, according to the writers, not criminal or violent).…”

Section: Negotiating Meaning In Song Lyricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading between Blurred Lines : The complexity of interpretation

Handforth

Paterson

Coffey-Glover

et al. 2017

Discourse, Context & Media

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This article uses thematic qualitative analysis and techniques from corpus linguistics to interrogate the way that listeners interpret and make sense of Blurred Lines. The song was controversial upon its release as many listeners felt that it implied that even if women said they did not want sex, in fact, they did. Such issues of sexual consent are a key issue for feminist analysis, particularly within current debates about 'rape culture'. We investigated listeners' interpretations of the song, distributing an online questionnaire to over 1000 respondents. We found that most listeners either interpreted the song as relating to sexual consent and took offence, or felt that it was simply representative of the genre, and found the song unproblematic. However, a number of listeners expressed conflict in relation to the song, enjoying it musically but finding the lyrics particularly problematic. Our analysis investigates the language that respondents used to negotiate their relationships with the different elements of the song.

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Section: Negotiating Meaning In Song Lyricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading between Blurred Lines : The complexity of interpretation

Handforth

Paterson

Coffey-Glover

et al. 2017

Discourse, Context & Media

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“…These findings point to the detrimental impact of high stress appraisal among Black women who experience few sexually objectifying GRM events yet engage in high self-objectification. It could be that Black women who, personally, experience few sexually objectifying GRM events are being sexually socialized about Black “womanhood” through other mediums (e.g., media; Capodilupo, 2015; Durham, 2012). This relation, in turn, may result in their likelihood to engage in self-objectification and report low appreciation of their bodies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, over half of the Black women in our sample (53%) resided in the Southern region of the United States. There may be certain beauty standards that subconsciously impact Black women in the Southern region of the United States, which could have influenced the study results (e.g., hegemonic feminine beauty ideals, bodily attractiveness; Avery et al, 2021; Durham, 2012). Furthermore, the cross-sectional nature of the study limits our ability to make causal and directional claims.…”

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Role of Self-Objectification & Gendered Racial Microaggressions on Black Women’s Body Appreciation

Dunn,

Patev,

Owens

et al. 2023

Journal of Black Psychology

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The subtle sexual objectification and dehumanization of Black women have a long history throughout Western society. However, few scholars have explored how sexually objectifying gendered racial microaggressions (GRM) events detract from Black women’s positive body image attitudes. Accordingly, this study investigated the moderating role of sexually objectifying GRM on the association between self-objectification and Black women’s body appreciation. Participants ( N = 215) completed measures assessing the stress appraisal and frequency of sexually objectifying GRM events, self-objectification beliefs, and body appreciation. Moderated moderation analysis revealed support for the hypothesis, with Black women reporting lower body appreciation when engagement in self-objectification and stress appraisal (of fewer sexually objectifying GRM events) were high. The findings highlight the importance of considering contextual factors, such as sexually objectifying GRM, when exploring Black women’s positive body image attitudes.

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“…European male fixation on Baartman as both an erotic and an ethnographic spectacle crystallized into a cultural turning point whereby fatness became "an intrinsically black, and implicitly off-putting, form of feminine embodiment in the European scientific and popular imagination" (Strings 2019, 89). The "hip-hop booty, " prominently featured in Sir Mix-A-Lot's original song, represents the same association between Blackness, femininity, fatness, and hypersexuality but is remixed to have a more positive valence (Durham 2012;Hobson 2005). Steampunk's sense of itself as a cultural outsider further blocks meaningful engagement with cultural appropriation.…”

Section: Aesthetic Londonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sartorial Fandom

Affuso¹,

Scott²

2023

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Baby" music video (2:04) 9.1. Ape Head hoodie and sneakers as shown off by r/bapeheads member 9.2. BAPE x Marvel Hulk BAPE STA sneaker, 2005 10.1. Threezero's Hannibal Lecter figure with accessories 10.2. The authors wearing their handmade flower crowns 11.1. Harry Potter bachelorette party T-shirts sold on Etsy 12.1. Cosplayer survey responses on selecting characters 14.1. Wakanda Moon cosplayers 15.1. Lisa Ring's "before" measurements 16.1. Promotional images from the rebooted Underoos brand in 2014 16.2. Two examples of "costume lingerie" from online retailer Yandy 16.3. High-end fan lingerie from the Japanese fashion brand SuperGroupiesBringing together an edited collection is always a challenging exercise, and attempting to do so during a global pandemic even more so. First and foremost, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to each and every one of our incredible contributors, who have weathered this long process with equal parts intellectual rigor and understanding. We are so excited to finally be able to share their wonderful work with all of you. Our home institutions, Pitzer College and the University of Texas at Austin, have been essential support systems for us throughout this process. In particular, we would like to express thanks to our colleagues, who are always available to talk through ideas and offer advice.We feel incredibly fortunate to have partnered with the University of Michigan Press for this project, and in particular we could not have asked for a better editor or advocate than Sara Jo Cohen. Sara has championed this project from its inception, and has been a guiding light throughout the process. Wrangling images is often thankless work, yet essential for a project such as this one, and accordingly we also offer our sincerest appreciation to Anna Pohlod for her attentiveness to this component of the manuscript's production. We would also like to thank Jessica Hinds-Bond for being a truly exemplary copyeditor, as well as Melissa Scholke and Marcia LaBrenz for facilitating such a smooth copyediting process. We would also like to acknowledge our cover artist, Jett Allen, who was both a font of creativity and an excellent collaborator throughout the design process.This collection would not have been possible without our dear friends Kate Fortmueller, Kristen Fuhs, and Dave Lerner, who kept us sane and entertained for the duration of this process. You are the only people we still get excited to zoom with. Finally, we offer our deepest appreciation to our partners, Geoff Harris and Luke Pebler, who were forced to eavesdrop on hundreds of hours of calls and strategy sessions. Your love and support, particularly over the past few years, means everything to us.Our tastes as consumers and fans are reflected back to us whenever we open our closets. We immediately see our go-to clothing labels, often representing years of fannish brand loyalty. We rifle through leaning towers of folded T-shirts featuring an eclectic mix of fan-designed and licensed imagery referencing beloved media objects....

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“Check On It”

Cited by 65 publications

References 32 publications

Reading between Blurred Lines : The complexity of interpretation

Reading between Blurred Lines : The complexity of interpretation

Role of Self-Objectification & Gendered Racial Microaggressions on Black Women’s Body Appreciation

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