Punk, Gender and Ageing: Just Typical Girls? by PSN committee member, Laura Way, is now available
to buy through Emerald.
The book draws upon Laura’s interviews with twenty-two women who responded to her call for
participants who identified as older punks. The chapters consider what punk meant to these women (and identifies a set of ‘core’ punk values); the role of music in their entry to and for their continued participation in punk; the significance of dress to their punk biographies; and how gender and ageing and punk interplay.
The book is available to purchase here and you can also read Laura’s recent Sociological Review article drawing upon the same research here.
Dr Laura Way is a research fellow in family research at the University of Lincoln (UK) on the Following Young Fathers Further study. An experienced qualitative research, her interests predominantly reside in issues
concerning gender and ageing as well as punk scholarship. Laura is currently working on a edited collection on punk pedagogies with fellow PSN member Dr Francis Stewart. Laura can be found on Twitter @drlauraway