The experiences of female skinheads in the 1980s
Academic analysis of the UK skinhead subculture focusses on males, through the paradigm of class (Hebdige 1979, Mungham 1976, Jefferson, 1979, Cohen 2011, Cashmore 1984, Clarke 1975). Such an approach overlooks female participation in subcultures. McRobbie (2000) addresses female invisibility in her qualitative research, focussing on women in separate locations to males, rather than occupying the same spaces.
This research will resituate a female presence in an analysis of skinhead subculture by answering the following question: How did female participants experience the 1980s skinhead scene, and did it differ to the existing understandings of male skinhead identity?
The research will take …show more content…
(1975) The Skinheads and the Study of Youth Culture, Birmingham: Department of Cultural Studies.
Cohen, S. (2011) Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the mods and rockers, Abingdon: Oxon, pp 2- 3, 45, 172, 213, 228 – 9, accessed at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/suss/reader.action?docID=684015# on 3/3/2017.
Hebdige, D. (1979) Subculture: the meaning of style, London: Routledge, pp 54 – 59.
Jefferson, T. (1979) ‘Subcultures, culture and class’ in Hall, S. and Jefferson, T., editors, (2006) Resistance through Rituals: Youth subcultures in post-war Britain, Abingdon: Routledge, pp3 – 59.
Letts, D (2016) ‘The story of Skinhead with Don Letts’, accessed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yv0qj on 3/2/2017.
McRobbie, A. (2000) ‘The culture of working class girls’ and ‘Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique’ in Feminism and Youth Culture, second edition, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, pp 26 – 66.
Mungham, G. (1976) Working Class Youth Culture, London: Routledge, pp 1-26.
Rabione, S.E. (2011) ‘How I Learned to Design and Conduct Semi-structured Interviews: An Ongoing and Continuous Journey’ in The Qualitative Report, Volume 16, Number 2, March 2011, pp 563-566, accessed at: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-2/rabionet.pdf on
Academic analysis of the UK skinhead subculture focusses on males, through the paradigm of class (Hebdige 1979, Mungham 1976, Jefferson, 1979, Cohen 2011, Cashmore 1984, Clarke 1975). Such an approach overlooks female participation in subcultures. McRobbie (2000) addresses female invisibility in her qualitative research, focussing on women in separate locations to males, rather than occupying the same spaces.
This research will resituate a female presence in an analysis of skinhead subculture by answering the following question: How did female participants experience the 1980s skinhead scene, and did it differ to the existing understandings of male skinhead identity?
The research will take …show more content…
(1975) The Skinheads and the Study of Youth Culture, Birmingham: Department of Cultural Studies.
Cohen, S. (2011) Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the mods and rockers, Abingdon: Oxon, pp 2- 3, 45, 172, 213, 228 – 9, accessed at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/suss/reader.action?docID=684015# on 3/3/2017.
Hebdige, D. (1979) Subculture: the meaning of style, London: Routledge, pp 54 – 59.
Jefferson, T. (1979) ‘Subcultures, culture and class’ in Hall, S. and Jefferson, T., editors, (2006) Resistance through Rituals: Youth subcultures in post-war Britain, Abingdon: Routledge, pp3 – 59.
Letts, D (2016) ‘The story of Skinhead with Don Letts’, accessed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yv0qj on 3/2/2017.
McRobbie, A. (2000) ‘The culture of working class girls’ and ‘Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique’ in Feminism and Youth Culture, second edition, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, pp 26 – 66.
Mungham, G. (1976) Working Class Youth Culture, London: Routledge, pp 1-26.
Rabione, S.E. (2011) ‘How I Learned to Design and Conduct Semi-structured Interviews: An Ongoing and Continuous Journey’ in The Qualitative Report, Volume 16, Number 2, March 2011, pp 563-566, accessed at: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-2/rabionet.pdf on