Feminism ycs

Question 1

key concepts

Answer 1

• cccs ignores women
• increased involvement in subcultures
• invisibility
• capital
• ragga girls
• private and public sphere
• passive and assertive femininity
• bedroom culture
• patriarchy

Question 2

Hollands

Answer 2

• girls increasingly more involved in the public sphere due to the emergence of assertive femininity
• techno traceys dancing around their handbags
• manchester nightlife

Question 3

Heidensohn

Answer 3

• womens deviance is rare due to partiarchal social control
• girls more likely to engage in private, domestic subcultural activities like bedroom culture
• women are socialised into conformity

Question 4

Wilkinson

Answer 4

• enhancing gender norms
• increased education
• new forms of assertive femininity
• might engage in ‘laddish’ behaviour in resistance to gender norms

Question 5

Thornton

Answer 5

• subcultural capital shapes ysc
• girls in club culture dismissed as ‘teenyboppers’ while boys seen as true participants

Question 6

Lees

Answer 6

• girls are placed under different social control
• women who sleep around will get called ‘slags’ and have their reputation ruined, but not men

Question 7

McRobbie

Answer 7

• media sets expectations for women
• ‘slimblondness’ is their healthy expectation

Question 8

Reddington

Answer 8

• bedroom culture outgrown as women are part of subcultures
• criticised male-centric focus of subcultural studies
• invisibility of women in subcultural studies

Question 9

McRobbie and Garber

Answer 9

• bedroom culture refers to how women are more involved in the private sphere
• ‘malestream crimonology’
• women are ignored in crimonology