Why the Lady is a Tramp

Résumé du livre

Why the Lady is a Tramp: A Study of Women in Pop-culture from Jane Austen to Lady Gaga, looks at three female characters created by female authors, one from the late 18th/early 19th century, one from the mid 19th century, and one from the 21st century: Jane Austen's Lady Susan, M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley, and Stefani Germanotta's Lady Gaga. All three of these women are gender-bending and use femininity as a cover to get away with their gender deviance. In doing so, these characters present a challenge to the female gender role of their eras, and therefore challenge gender itself. Similarly, the authors who present these challenges, having created these characters, cover some of their rebellion by telling stories(/writing songs) that are palatable enough to their contemporaries to allow them to make livings as artists.