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Gender and Youth Subcultures - Coggle Diagram
Gender and Youth Subcultures
Mc Robbie, Active Girls
Active in consumer culture which they had not been given credit for before
Magazines to critique and laugh rather than passively accepting their content
Shifting to focus on romance in the 1970s and 1980s to a more confident sexuality
Change in the focus of magazines for girls, shifted to focus on romance, self-confident sexuality
Thornton
Mainstream culture is often looked down on by people with sub cultural capital and when a style moves from being underground and hip to being mainstream it becomes feminised
acid house/rave culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s which lost its underground status as legal rave sprung up on this scene was characterised by ‘techno Tracy’s’ dancing round but the handbags
Girls accept their lack of subcultural capital, defending their taste in pop music
Girl were more interested in doing well at school and boys with money leading to difference in subcultural capital
Girls have less subcultural capital as less disposable income as marrying earlier, earning less than male counterparts, the ‘teenage market’ was dominated by boys
feminist argument that things associated with females are often characterised as somehow less important or acceptable than things associated with males
Change roles for females in subcultures
Form of resistant against patriarchy under male exclusiveness of other music sub cultures
Less restricted and controlled, now not dependent on men
Strong and powerful female identity's
In Us and Canada, 1990s, Riot girls
Greater presence in more recent sub cultures
Recently, roles of girls more obvious. New romantics, ravers and goths were more unisex sub cultures, As chaffs and emos, even though some of the clothes may vary between sexes.
Reddington, Active Girls
punk, female performers were often not taken seriously by reviewers, being referred to, as punkette and judged much more by there physical appearance much more than male punk performers
Form of resistance for, appalled by the ideas of secretarial college or getting married
Punk subculture involved females from interception, being based on a very egalitarian ethos’s that anybody could do
Active female members of the ‘spectacular subcultures’
Hollands- Friday night, Saturday night
Differences in attitudes and activities of young males and females
Bedroom culture may be a thing of the past, although he studied older girls
Quite suicidal’, response of female students when asked about being restricted from going out in three months
Increase in number of women going out, feel worse if restricted by male couterparts
Evaluation
• Girls were in their bedroom which was their own form of resistance as anxieties about teenage sexual interaction
So many expectation put on girls but being in the bedroom culture allowed them to resit external cultures
Seen as appendages as girlfriends
Not visible on the streets
Less visible because they were less involved, were at home