‘What Difference does it Make? Women's Pop Cultural Production and Consumption in Manchester’

• DOI: 10.5153/sro.410
• Publication Date: 2010-03-31T09:06:29Z
• Authors: Nicola Richards; Katie Milestone
• Keywords: Performative utterance; Consumption; Emotional Labor; Popular culture

This paper explores the experiences of women in small cultural businesses and is based upon interviews with working a range contexts Manchester's popular music sector. The research seeks to promote wider consideration women's roles production consumption. We argue that it necessary consumption be understood as inter-related processes. Each part this process imbued particular gender characteristics can serve reinforce existing patterns hierarchies. explore ways which female leisure have been marginalised how turn shapes production. influences career choices but also reinforced through integration into workplace. Practices often associated sector, such blurring work ‘networking’, appear operated significantly different by women. As industries are predicated colonisation urban space we use city character scene. conclude that, despite existence highly contingent individualised identities, significant power relations remain evident. These particularly clear discussion performative sexualised aspects job.