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auraine Leblanc has more than an academic knowledge of her dissertation topic, "The Flowers in your Dustbin: Girls in the North American Punk Subcultures of the 1990s." As a teenager in Montreal, Leblanc was thrown out of high school for shaving her head.

"The educational system was corrupt," says Leblanc, who received her doctoral degree at this year's Commencement.

"I had an A average and not one detention. I transferred to an alternative school where they cared about academic performance rather than appearance."

After earning her master of arts degree from Emory in 1994, Leblanc pursued a doctorate from the Institute for Women's Studies.

Her dissertation focuses on how female punk rockers, ranging in age from fourteen to thirty-seven, use their subculture to resist mainstream gender norms. Leblanc interviewed forty young women in San Francisco, Montreal, New Orleans, and Atlanta for her study.

" 'Punk' is a subculture that is anti-authorita