Feminism (Gender And Youth Subcultures

Question 1

Heidensohn

Answer 1

Would accuse research of being male stream

-accounts written by males about males in youth subcultures (making girls seem invisible in research

Question 2

McRobbie and Garber

Answer 2

Noticed the absence of girls in their studies of youth subcultures
Reasons
•girls participated less in subcultures
•girls did participate but the way research was done made them seem invisible
•girls were described in terms of physical attractiveness
•position of women is structurally different- women have their own culture separate from male dominated subcultures studies by male researchers.

Question 3

Lincoln

Answer 3

Studied Mancunian girls in 1990s and realised that bedroom culture still existed- bedroom still a place where girls cultivated friendships
However
Bedroom is no longer a private space 
-access to internet
-makes no longer excluded from bedrooms

Question 4

Harris

Answer 4

Lives and experience of a young women today can be understood as

Girl power- young women should get what they want and do what they want - assertive femininity

Girls at risk - moral and social concerns -pregnancy, STD’s, violence

Young women are shaping their identities- internet become important in letting girls express themselves.

Question 5

Blackman

Answer 5

‘New wave girls’
Male feminist- carried out an ethnographic study within a school- accessed girls via a group of kid boys and grew close to them (joining them for lunch, visiting them at home, walking them home etc.

• girls were working/ middle class, popular and academically able
• wore doc martens, black trousers and oversized jumpers
• resisted a passive femininity and resisted masculine and parental control