Gender, Power & Heavy Metal

Timestamps: 00:00 - Preface 05:09 - Introduction 10:58 - Part 1: No Girls Allowed 14:26 - Black Magic Woman 17:08 - Gays and Bikers 19:09 - Metal ‘For Girls’ 24:50 - Nothin’ But A Good Time 32:18 - Man-Woman That You Fear 35:02 - Heavy Metal Freaks 37:39 - Part 2: Some Girls Allowed 47:36 - Gothic Goddesses 52:46 - Gimme Chocolate! 55:46 - One Of The Boys 1:00:25 - Whore 1:12:14 - Nova Days 1:14:28 - Conclusion 1:15:38 - Credits Notes on texts: I used two main texts to inform this video; “Running With the Devil; Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music,“ by Robert Walter, and “Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production,” by Pauwke Berkers and Julian Schaap. Both are good reads for anyone interested, but I would especially recommend the former, which goes into other aspects of metal’s cultural impact, such as moral panics, as well as going more in depth into certain aspects of gender, in particular relating to mas