“Girl power”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Girl power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, and confidence. The slogan's invention is credited to US punk band Bikini Kill, who published a zine called Girl Power in 1991.

Early usage and origins

In 1991, US punk band Bikini Kill published a feminist zine called Girl Power.^[1] The band's lead singer, Kathleen Hanna, said was inspired by the Black Power slogan.^[2] The term became popular in the early and mid 90s punk culture. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll credits the zine with coining the slogan: "In their feminist fanzine Bikini Kill they articulated an agenda for young women in and outside of music; the band put those ideas to practice. (Ironically, the zine first coined the "girl power" slogan, later co-opted by England's bubblegum pop band the Spice Girls.) Bikini Kill earned a reputation in the punk underground for confronting certain standards of that genre; for example, asking people to slam at the side of the stage, so that women would not get pushed out of the front, and inviting women to take the mike and talk about sexual abuse."^[3]

The phrase is sometimes sensationally spelled grrrl power, based on the spelling of riot grrrl.^[4]^[5]

Some other musical artists who have used the slogan in their music are Welsh band Helen Love, with it appearing in the chorus of their 1992 song “Formula One Racing Girls”,^[6] and pop-punk duo Shampoo,^[7] who released an album and single titled Girl Power in 1995.

Spice Girls and scholarship

British pop quintet Spice Girls popularized the slogan in the mid-1990s.^[8]^[9]^[10] In her 2002 book Girl Heroes: The New Force in Popular Culture, Professor Susan Hopkins suggests a correlation between girl power, Spice Girls, and female action heroes at the end of the 20th century.^[11] Geri Halliwell, a member of the Spice Girls, credited former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a leading conservative, as the pioneer of their ideology of girl power.^[12]^[13]

The slogan has also been examined within the context of the academic field, for example Buffy studies.^[14] Media theorist Kathleen Rowe Karlyn in her article "Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism's Third Wave: I'm Not My Mother"^[15] and Irene Karras in "The Third Wave's Final girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer" suggest a link with third-wave feminism. Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy in the introduction to Athena’s Daughters: Television’s New Women Warriors, discuss what they describe as a link between girl power and a "new" image of women warriors in popular culture.^[16]

Oxford English Dictionary

The dictionary further offers an example of this term by quoting from "Angel Delight", an article in the March 24, 2001 issue of Dreamwatch about the television series Dark Angel:

Criticism

Dr. Debbie Ging, Chair of the BA in Communications Studies in Dublin City University, was critical of the "Girl power" ideals, and linked it to the sexualisation of younger children, girls in particular.^[19]

Amy McClure of North Carolina State University warns against placing too much hope on girl power as an empowering concept. She says, “An ideology based on consumerism can never be a revolutionary social movement. The fact that it appears to be a revolutionary movement is a dangerous lie that not only marketers sell to us but that we often happily sell to ourselves.”^[20]

Media can sometimes present a narrow definition of what it means to be a girl today. One common example being popular toys such Mattel's Barbie. The recent “I can be” Barbie^[21] embodies this concept of “girl power”: that little girls can be anything they want when they grow up. Arguably, Barbie's image may also present narrowed options with which girls can identify.^[22] Hannah Jane Parkinson of The Guardian criticized the term as something "young women [that] are feeling more confident about calling themselves feminists and standing up for principles of equality" hide behind and denounced it for including the word "girl", claiming it promoted the calling of adult women as girls.^[23]

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/arts/music/kathleen-hanna-julie-ruin-hit-reset-interview.html |title=Kathleen Hanna on Hit Reset, Her Recovery and Her Feminist Path |last=Coscarelli |first=Joe |date=July 11, 2016 |website=The New York Times |access-date=2017-06-13}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Marcus|first1=Sara|title=Girls to the Front|date=2010|publisher=Harper Perennial|location=New York}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bikini-kill/biography |title=Bikini Kill Bio |website=RollingStone.com |access-date=2017-06-13}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Gonick|first=Marnina|title=Girl Culture|year=2008|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-313-33909-7|pages=310–314|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arQy0v_PBx4C&lpg=PA311&ots=653MgneXMO&dq=Riot%20Grrrls%20grrl%20power&pg=PA311#v=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=Girl Power}}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Leonard|first=Marion|title=Sexing The Groove: Popular Music and Gender|year=1997|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-415-14670-8|pages=230–55|chapter='Rebel Girl, You Are the Queen of My World': Feminism, 'Subculture' and Grrrl Power}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elizabeth.ercocklly/helenlov.htm |title=Helen Love - Gabba Gabba We Accept You |publisher=Homepage.ntlworld.com |accessdate=2012-09-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023114007/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/elizabeth.ercocklly/helenlov.htm |archivedate=2012-10-23 |df= }}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/april_2001/shampoo.html |title=Shampoo - Interview by Alexander Laurence |publisher=Free Williamsburg |date=April 2001 |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/from-title-ix-to-riot-gr.html |title=From Title IX to Riot Grrrls |publisher=Harvard Magazine |date=January–February 2008 |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/38786.stm |title=Girl power | You've come a long way baby |publisher=BBC News |date=December 30, 1997 |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
10. ^{{cite web|author=Sarler, Carol |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-396834/Girl-Power-betrayed-us.html |title=Girl Power: how it betrayed us |publisher=Daily Mail |date=21 July 2006 |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
11. ^{{cite web|author=Costi, Angela |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/22/power_chicks/ |title=Super Slick Power Chicks: The New Force or Elaborate Parody? |publisher=Senses of Cinema |date=October 4, 2002 |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
12. ^Amanda Evans and Tara Brabazon, "I'll never be your woman: the Spice Girls and new flavours of feminism." Social Alternatives 17#2 (1998): 39.
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/spice-girls-too-hot-to-handle-19970710 |title=Spice Girls: Too Hot to Handle |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=10 July 1997 |accessdate=7 March 2017}}
14. ^"The Third Wave's Final girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050620082403/http://www.thirdspace.ca/articles/karras.htm |date=June 20, 2005 }}
15. ^{{cite web |last=Karlyn |first=Kathleen Rowe |url=http://www.genders.org/g38/g38_rowe_karlyn.html |title=Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism's Third Wave: I'm Not My Mother |publisher=Genders |year=2003 |accessdate=2012-09-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612004031/http://www.genders.org/g38/g38_rowe_karlyn.html |archivedate=2012-06-12 |df= }}
16. ^{{cite web|last=Riley |first=Robin |url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=238391094059727 |title=Review of Early, Frances; Kennedy, Kathleen, eds., Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors |publisher=H-Net Reviews |date=May 2004 |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00307048?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=girl+power&first=1&max_to_show=10 |title=OED:Girl power |publisher=Oxford English Dictionary |accessdate=2012-09-30}}
18. ^E y e s <-> <-> O n l y {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105035505/http://www.darkangelfan.com/news/254.shtml |date=2008-01-05 }}
19. ^Ging, Debbie. "Girl Power" doesn’t empower: why it’s time for an honest debate about the sexualisation of children in Ireland July 2007.
20. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131183249/http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108568_index.html |date=January 31, 2008 }}
21. ^http://icanbe.barbie.com
22. ^{{cite book | last1 = Lamb | first1 = Sharon | last2 = Brown | first2 = Lyn Mikel | authorlink1 = Sharon Lamb |authorlink2=Lyn Mikel Brown| title = Packaging Girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes | publisher = St. Martin's Griffin | location = New York | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780312370053 }}
23. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/08/stop-calling-women-girls-its-either-patronising-or-sexually-suggestive | title=Stop calling women 'girls'. It's either patronising or sexually suggestive | publisher=The Guardian | date=8 July 2015 | accessdate=25 November 2016 | author=Hannah Jane Parkinson}}

Early usage and origins

Spice Girls and scholarship

Oxford English Dictionary

Criticism

See also

References

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