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This chapter explores how gender and sexuality have been key sites of discussion in subcultural studies and concentrates on the ways in which specific subcultures have been gendered in fiction. The chapter begins by noting how classic subcultural theory tended in its earlier phases to focus on discourses of masculinity and male affiliation in subcultures and how this was challenged in the 1970s by writers such as Jenny Garber and Angela McRobbie. It goes on to discuss how queer theory illuminates the reading of subcultural fiction. It examines a range of novels that describe how female characters negotiate a variety of gendered subcultural identities and spaces including Steph Avery’s Our Trespasses (2013), Alison Miller’s Demo (2006), Margaret Duffy’s The Microcosm (1966), Sarah Schulman’s After Delores (1988) and Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet (1998).

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Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Gender and Sexuality in Subcultural Fiction

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    2025年

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  • Nick Bentley

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This chapter explores how gender and sexuality have been key sites of discussion in subcultural studies and concentrates on the ways in which specific subcultures have been gendered in fiction. The chapter begins by noting how classic subcultural theory tended in its earlier phases to focus on discourses of masculinity and male affiliation in subcultures and how this was challenged in the 1970s by writers such as Jenny Garber and Angela McRobbie. It goes on to discuss how queer theory illuminates the reading of subcultural fiction. It examines a range of novels that describe how female characters negotiate a variety of gendered subcultural identities and spaces including Steph Avery’s Our Trespasses (2013), Alison Miller’s Demo (2006), Margaret Duffy’s The Microcosm (1966), Sarah Schulman’s After Delores (1988) and Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet (1998).