"Who's afraid of little old me?": A Swiftie theory of monstrous femininity

Authors

  • Chloe Bond University of British Columbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2025.2839

Keywords:

Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA), FSNNA 2024, Monstrosity, Popular music fandom, Taylor Swift

Abstract

An analysis of what fans' responses to Taylor Swift's latest album The Tortured Poets Department can tell us about how young people define, conceptualize, and operationalize monstrous femininity.

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Published

2025-03-14

Issue

Vol. 45 (2025): Sports Fandoms

Section

Multimedia

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Copyright (c) 2025 Chloe Bond

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