Youth subcultures and Gender

Question 1

What was McRobbie and Garber’s study ?

Answer 1

• criticized the CCCS
• in the 50’s girls were restricted to early mariage and under large social control
• in the 70’s bedroom culture was seen
• girls getting together, gossiping and discussing magazines
• anxieties about male interaction led to forming tight friendships
• the reason for ‘invisibility’ in other subculture studies is because they spent more time inside than outside therefore weren’t visible

Question 2

What did Thornton says about gender ?

Answer 2

• girls have less subcultural capital as they had less disposable income
• girls invest more of their time and money into doing well at school while boys invested into music and going out

Question 3

What did Reddington study ?

Answer 3

• no better example of male hegemonic control over popular culture history than the rewrite of punk
• This hegemonic control let to no appreciation of women even though they had a big part in the history
• an example of a women in this culture is Vivianne Westwood

Question 4

What was McRobbie’s additional study ?

Answer 4

• says women have become more active in consumer culture than she used to give them credit for
• E.g. She looked at the contents of girls magazines and found that they used to focus on romantic relationships and now look at girls self-confidence

Question 5

What did Bennet say about Gender ?

Answer 5

• neo-tribes are less gendered and have looser boundaries between subcultures
• Has allowed girls to have space to develop their own identities

Question 6

What did Holland study ?

Answer 6

• dramatic increase in the number of women who are out at night in the city
• Women feel worse when they are restricted from going out
• Women are more likely to go out into the city centre with large groups of females
• Men enjoy drinking in community areas which they dominate

Question 7

McRobbie - Black Ragga girls

Answer 7

• danced to music in a sexually explicit way
• this ridiculed sexist culture and opened up their own space and took back control of their sexuality

Question 8

Changing roles for females in subcultures:

Answer 8

• In a more recent subcultures, women’s role has become a lot clearer
• Some subcultures such as new romantic’s and goths had more unisex identities