On Angela Mcrobbie's Working-class Girls' Subculture

The thesis aims to analyze McRobbie's research on working-class girls'subculture. The thesis has adopted three typical perspectives in the female youth subculture: popular music, dresses as well as rave and dance culture. Apart from the introduction and conclusion, the body of the thesis consists of three chapters.The first chapter, focused on the important role of popular music in the working-class girls'subculture, respectively discusses on girls'participation in the pop music of teenybop type, rock music and Ragga music in which the Black girls are also taken into consideration; Chapter two centers on the resistant significance of the dresses in the working-class girl's subcultural life: working-class girls'creative way of wearing school uniform, the masculine dresses of motor-bike girls, along with the connection between punk girls and second-hand dresses; Chapter three elaborates on the working-class girls'active bodily involvement in the rave and dance culture, their cautious self-protection in the rave party which indicates the combination of working-class girls'comparatively radical resistance and the incorporation of the dominant ideology in the patriarchal society.It is obvious that the working-class girls'resistance to cultural hegemony is merely in the symbolic level, some of them are even imaginary, which can by no means change their subordinate position in the patriarchal society. The thesis has summarized the theory of the British working-class girls'subculture, making panoramic description on the working-class girls'resistance to mainstream culture and mainstream culture's incorporation on them. The thesis is not only the supplement and improvement of the relevant research in China, and also the systematic summarization and discussion of the sources and trends of Birmingham School's academic theories.