Gender

Question 1

Mcrobbie (1991)

Answer 1

girls have become more active in relation to consumer culture for example rather than buying magazines and passively accepting their content, they now critique and laugh at it

Question 2

McRobbie (1994)

Answer 2

considered an intersection of gender with ethnicity. Black ‘ragga’ girls dance in a sexually explicit way to ridicule male sexism and opening up their own cultural space.

Question 3

Thornton (1995b)

Answer 3

because girls had less disposable income and marrying earlier than boys, the ‘teenage market’ was dominated by boys. Girls invested more time and every into doing well at school whereas boys invested in music and going out leading to a difference in cultural capital