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?
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