Gender and youth subcultures

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  • Gender and youth subcultures
    • Bedroom culture : girls getting together and experimenting with make-up, hairstyles and fashion. gossip boys and magazines
    • Vivienne westwood: influential to punk fashion
    • Acitive girls (McRobbie) girls have become more active and involved in youth subcultures
      • Magzines shifted from women being expressed as romantic and now self-confident
    • Most theories on youths focus on males
    • Thornton (1995) argues that females had less income and were more focused at marrying young then their male counterparts so less interested in joining youth subcultures (teenage market dominant by males)
    • Thornton : Subcultural capital (females more intrested in earning and doing well at school where as males invested time in going out and on music
    • Mainstream capital was often looked down by those in subcultural capitial as mainstream music and dance moves was seen as 'feminised'
    • House/  pop culture was known to 'techno tracy's'
    • reddington (2003) male hegemonic control (men control popular culture)
      • Punk  subcultures appealed to females that were appalled by getting married early as it was a form of resistance agaisn't society
        • 'Punkettes' (females not taken seriously by reviewers and being judged more on appearance then as punk performers
    • changing roles for females (1980/90)
      • new romantics, ravers and goth suncultures more unisex friendly. have strong and powerful female identities.
      • Bennett (1999) post-modernists less gendered   and loosing of boundaries of letting girls pick their identity
      • today 21st century girls less restricted  & controlled. more time in public spaces  and contribute to greater presence e.g. binge-drinking in clubs equal to females and males
        • study  Newcastle (1995) nightlife says bedroom culture is a thing of the past

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