JOURNAL ARTICLE

"Bag Lady, You Gon' Hurt Your Back": An Existential-Phenomenological Account of Women and Bag-Carrying as Narrated Through Erykah Badu.

  • Published In: Theory & Event, 2023, v. 26, n. 1. P. 52 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Melonas, Desireé R. 3 of 3

Abstract

This article presents the practice of extreme bag-carrying among women from both phenomenological and existential perspectives, examining the potential political and social substructures inducing women to enact a pain-producing habit. Drawing on insights from both phenomenology and existentialism, this essay aims to get underneath the practice, making legible the motivations behind enacting a habit that, while innocuous on its face, poses an immense amount of harm to the bag-carrying woman. The pain factor leaves us with a puzzle through which I propose to sort: the fact of women engaging in a habit that in the end, just hurts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Theory & Event. 2023/01, Vol. 26, Issue 1, p52
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Music
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:2572-6633
  • DOI:10.1353/tae.2023.0003
  • Accession Number:161528597
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