Explain what the terms mean in the context of these two readings. Then go on to discuss what Tompkins means with her assertion about the Beatles, women and androgyny
In “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” Jane Tompkins writes that “because the Beatles were somewhat androgynous, they gave women permission to be more androgynous, too” (217). In “Beatlemania: A sexually defiant consumer subculture?,” Barbara Ehrenreich and her co-authors write that, “What. . .most adult commentators couldn’t imagine was that the Beatles’ androgyny was itself […]