E5S3 - Collecting the Masculine feat. Michelle Gibble

This podcast is based on the article “Sizing up record collections: Gender and Connoisseurship in Rock Music Culture” by Will Straw. It talks about the lack of women record collectors and how this hobby came to be so gendered. We discuss the how men are involved in validating subjects along with the popular notion that women don't have hobbies. We also broach the subject of fashion as a form of collection and hipness as a tool for gatekeeping, tying all of that back into the gender inequality that commonly exists in rock music.