Deborah M. Withers

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Withers' book is her PhD thesis, so not all that accessible. The performing personality of Kate Bush is described as the "Bushian Feminine Subject", abbreviated to "BFS" throughout the book, which is rather confusing. Where lyrics are quoted, citations are given to the album rather than to the song in which they appear. More fundamentally, I felt that this was a case where a thematic rather than chronological approach might have been more suitable - like Thomson, Withers goes through Bush's career album by album, but this obscures the interesting questions of whether her approach to sexuality, gender identity, orientalism or colonialism has changed over time. My other half confessed that she had not managed to finish the book; it is only 150 pages, but a bit impenetrable.… (mehr)