Harry Styles’ Watermelon Sugar: Affirming or Resisting Heteronormative Genders and Sexualities?


by Hannah Weise
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Abstract


Introduction


Intertextuality’s Role in Forming Subject Positions


Doing Gender

           The Protagonists’ Image
           Mulvey’s Gaze Theory

From the Ritualization of Subordination to the Hot Lesbian: Gender Advertising Codes


Doing Sexuality

           The Women
           Harry Styles
           Queerbaiting


Watermelon Sugar: Reifying and Resisting Heteronormativity


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