Spare x Tender Masculinity
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's here! Welcome to the first episode of Material Girls, a scholarly podcast about pop culture co-hosted by Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman.
This show aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.
In this pilot episode, Marcelle leads us through a discussion of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, and a mini lecture on tender masculinity. She pulls on theory from bell hooks, Robert Morrell, Chris Haywood and Thomas Johansson (among others) and ultimately makes a claim that Hannah dutifully picks apart — in a totally academic, non-bullying way!!!
We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease!
*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh. |
| 0:09.6 | Uh oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:15.4 | I need a train. |
| 0:16.9 | I need a real train. |
| 0:18.7 | I wanna take a ride on a mini train. |
| 0:22.2 | You can have it all at the shopping. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello and welcome to Material Girls, a scholarly podcast about popular culture. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Marcel Coswin and I'm Hannah McGregor and hey you might know us from the |
| 0:43.0 | podcast which please. Since we finished our read through of the Harry Potter |
| 0:48.0 | series we're trying something a little different but with the same overall goal |
| 0:52.6 | of digging into the things we find interesting to see how they work. |
| 0:57.1 | In each episode of Material Girls we're going to choose an objective study. |
| 1:01.7 | This will be something that's having or has had a moment of popularity. |
| 1:06.2 | We're going to think through the material reasons for that popularity. |
| 1:11.0 | So the episodes will be divided into three main segments. |
| 1:15.9 | First why this why now is the segment where we'll introduce the thing in question |
| 1:21.5 | and we'll talk about why we think it's interesting and make some preliminary |
| 1:25.9 | guesses about why it had or is having a moment. |
| 1:30.8 | The next segment the theory we need is where we get scholarly. |
| 1:35.7 | Hannah and I are both academics by training and we just can't help but bring in |
| 1:39.8 | critical theory to make sense of what's happening in the world. |
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