Swoon w/ Bea Martinez-Gatell

About this episode

Will speaks to Bea Martinez-Gatell about her book on fangirls and their cultural significance.

In this episode of the podcast Will speaks to Bea Martinez-Gatell, author of Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles about how she came to write the book, the emergence of fan girls, why she chose the subjects for each chapter of the book, the connection between fangirls and the media's representation of women, how interlinked fangirls were to broader social and political changes for women's rights in the 19th and 20th centuries and how comparable fangirls and the perception of them in the media in the past is to the fangirls of today.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Will

Guest: Bea Martinez-Gatell

Topics covered

• fangirls
• media representation
• women's rights
• 19th century
• 20th century
• counterculture
• literature

Keywords

• fangirls
• Bea Martinez-Gatell
• Swoon
• media
• women's rights
• counterculture
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acast

Books & works: Swoon: Fangirls, Their Idols and the Counterculture of Female Lust – From Byron to the Beatles

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