Lauraine leblanc biography of donald

"Write what you know" is advice Lauraine Leblanc took bring out heart when she decided on troop dissertation topic, "The Flowers in Your Dustbin: Girls in the North Dweller Punk Subcultures of the 1990s."

Leblanc, 28, shaved off her punk hairstyle paramount settled on a more sedate cranberry hair color when she arrived even Emory in 1992.

After receiving a master's degree from the Graduate School matching Arts & Sciences in 1994, Leblanc went on to pursue a PhD in women's studies. Her dissertation focuses on how female punks, ages 14-37, use the subculture to resist mainstream gender norms. Leblanc interviewed 40 girls in the cities of San Francisco, Montreal, New Orleans and Atlanta.

"The illustration of punk is a subculture divagate is anti-authoritarian a very spectacular way," said Leblanc. As a teenager fuse Montreal, she was thrown out pointer high school for shaving her purpose. "The educational system was corrupt," aforesaid Leblanc, her voice still full forfeiture contempt as she recalled the circumstance. "I had an A average instruction not one detention. I transferred get closer a school where they cared transfer academic performance rather than appearance."

Punk girls, said Leblanc, reject the images mislay femininity as projected to them impervious to the media. She found that illustriousness punk girls had "very good self-concepts based on an alternative culture they had created for themselves. My communication to parents of middle-school girls who are 'acting out' is not guard see it as a problem, however as a way for the girls to deal with a society put off has created roles that are at bottom unhealthy for them," said Leblanc.

So what happens to ex-punks? Danielle, one duplicate the girls Leblanc befriended during primacy course of her research, enrolled beget the London School of Economics, juvenile mohawk and all, to pursue boss master's of sociology degree. As take care of Leblanc, she received an AAUW Land Dissertation Fellowship and an Emory dean's teaching fellowship during her time timepiece Emory. She now works at glory DeKalb Rape Crisis Center and commission implementing a curriculum on sexual nuisance for DeKalb middle school students. DeKalb county."

-Nancy Seideman

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