Review of: Maria Katharina Wiedlack: Queer-Feminist Punk. An Anti-Social History. Wien: Zaglossus 2015.

Abstract

Maria Katharina Wiedlack presents a theory-based, empirically rich study on queer feminist punk in the USA and Canada, in which she, on the one hand, brings together queer studies and subculture studies, thus establishing a counterexample to the conventional portrayal of punk as a white, male subculture. On the other hand, the author’s detailed description of the movement’s history makes an important contribution to the documentation of queer feminist North-American punk. Thanks to the combination of anti-social queer theory with psychoanalytical, feminist, and decolonial approaches, the author constructs a solid theoretical foundation for her analysis of the movement’s radical activism and cultural production.