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Article: Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Gwendolyn D. Pough. 2004. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 265 pp. (photographs and index included). $US 21.95 (paperback).
Most women rappers did not begin a career in hip-hop because they envisioned themselves as feminist warriors. Rather, many of those women consciously distanced themselves from even the perception that they might be feminist. Besides a basic desire for self-expression, most female rappers appear to be driven by the same thing that drives most male rappers--the wish to demonstrate lyrical prowess, the desire to control audience responses, and the impulse ...