{"pk":40259,"title":"Since March 2020…Rethinking Vulnerability, Taylor Swift’s Pandemic Records, and Piers Plowman’s Women","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Our shared sense of vulnerability during the pandemic provides a valuable lens for considering the ways women’s vulnerability has been used to undermine women’s authority. Even strong women, such as Taylor Swift, find themselves subject to loss of authority due to the systemic oppression that works to devalue women in positions of social power. Swift’s career creates an unconventional, but potent, link to the female figures in William Langland’s \nPiers Plowman \nwho are depicted as being vulnerable no matter their status. Building off the work of numerous feminist scholars and taking inspiration from Taylor Swift’s music, this paper explores how vulnerability can become a resource for political and personal connection in a time of alienation and crisis.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Piers Plowman"},{"word":"vulnerability"},{"word":"Taylor Swift"},{"word":"Pandemic"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p34s44p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Holly","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Crocker","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-04-15T13:27:46Z","date_accepted":"2021-04-15T13:27:46Z","date_published":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ncs_pedagogyandprofession/article/40259/galley/30277/download/"}]}