SOC 0851 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Goth Subculture, Midriff, Sexually Transmitted Infection
10 Jun 2018
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o Sexuality in the Media
▪ The kids of seual ats depited i toda’s oie theaters ad o TV
screens would have been unheard of in the early days of Hollywood
▪ Sexualization of women seems to begin at increasingly younger ages
▪ The midriff is a young woman who intentionally uses her sexuality as a
means of empowerment
▪ Midriff represents one way of working through some of the emerging
contradictions regarding gender and sexuality in the wake of the second
ae of the oe’s oeet i plaes like the Uited States
• Previously, women could be perceived as exchanging sex and
emotional support for financial support in the context of marriage
• As women gained economic independence in the workplace, a
new space was provided for experimenting with ideas about
gender ad seualit, iludig the eploratio of hat oe’s
sexuality, and developing a sense of sexual agency therefore
seems consistent with those goals
▪ Midriff and other examples of the increasing sexuality of young women
and girls are a source of alarm for many because of the assumed
connection between these images and the behaviors of real girls and
young women
• Rising rates of teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually
transmitted diseases are considered to be consequences of this
youthful exploration of sexuality as empowerment
• Media power perspective – girls and young women uncritically
absorb the messages about sexuality portrayed in the media and
reflect these messages in their own behavior; the media
environment that depicts young women and girls as sexual agents
creates added pressure on women and girls to engage in sexual
activity before they may be ready and without negotiating power
to demand safe sexual practices
o Sexuality in Subculture
▪ Goth is a subcultural youth movement that many date to an early 1980s
blending of the punk music scene with that of glamour rock
• Music-based subculture
• Implies an entire aesthetic that involved ways of both seeing and
being seen
• Characterized by an atmosphere of open sexuality that many Goth
women find liberating and empowering
• “uulture supportie of oe’s seual poer, refletie of
feminist sensibility
• Goth events in clubs – preeminent social rule is for all individuals
to respect the social space of others
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