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Girls' Night Out: Female Graffiti Artists in a Gendered City

Gentry, Erin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206212108

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2008, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies/Popular Culture.
Graffiti art is often thought of as a boys' subculture because it is seen as too dangerous and aggressive for girls to be involved. Despite this assumption, girls have been invested in graffiti art since its beginnings in the early 1970's, and continue to contribute to the subculture's development today. This thesis explores the often ignored position of female graffiti artists by looking both at the physical and the social spaces in which female graffiti artists work. The city is explored as a masculine space that is hostile to female graffiti artists. The subculture of graffiti is inhospitable as well, because female graffiti artists are often fetishized and objectified, and their talents are under constant scrutiny within the subculture. This thesis employs personal interviews with several female graffiti artists and then uses a cultural studies approach to develop an understanding of the position of females in graffiti. Finally, it explores the ways in which the hyper-masculine natures of both the city and the subculture have affected the subjectivities of female graffiti artists through a visual analysis of self-portraits of the artists.
Amy Bingaman, PhD (Committee Chair)
Maisha Wester, PhD (Committee Member)
77 p.
American Studies; Gender
Graffiti; Subcultures; Gender Studies; Urban Studies

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  • Gentry, E. (2008). Girls' Night Out: Female Graffiti Artists in a Gendered City [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206212108

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gentry, Erin. Girls' Night Out: Female Graffiti Artists in a Gendered City. 2008. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206212108.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gentry, Erin. "Girls' Night Out: Female Graffiti Artists in a Gendered City." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1206212108

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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