Leblanc, Lauraine. Pretty In Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance In A Boys' Subculture. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1999. Print.

This book is a first person account on Leblanc's life as a punk girl. She recounts her time in high school, when she was expelled for her hairstyle and the way she dressed and how to this day, she still feels angry at the way she was treated for this.

• "Although still a virgin, I was mocking female sexuality through parody"
• "becoming a punk was, for me, the ultimate in self-empowerment - that I had moved from a position of victimization, as the smartest, dorkyest, most persecuted girl in school, to one of agency, as a person in control of my self presentation"

Leblanc states that she was horribly bullied about her appearance - this lead her to reject social norms. "...at least I'm ugly on purpose"

She was a young girl forming opinions on important things in the world and responding to them with her appearance. It was her way of communicating and having a voice. This strayed outside of the societies' gender 'norms' so not many people wanted to hear, she was simply belittled and expelled from school. Would a male have been met with the same reactions?

• "The punk guys will really overpower what the punk girls have to say"

Society still had male dominated gender dynamics and these girls were aware of it. Forming a subculture gave them an outlet to explore and challenge their supposed 'place' in society. However the male voices of the subculture were the ones most heard, typically, they weren't straying outside of their 'gender norms'. 

• "How do they construct gender identities in a subculture that demands both masculine toughness and feminine compliance?"

There seems to be little to no documentation of exploration of punk girls and why they chose to enter a very masculine dominated subculture. Were people simply not interested in what these young girls had to say and why they were rejecting their 'gender roles'? From what I have read so far, these girls didn't feel as though they fit in with societies gender expectations, nor did they want to, so they parodied them and decided to not fit in on purpose. 

Leblanc writes about how around the time of puberty, young girls experience a drop in self-esteem and become much more concerned with obliging to social norms. Males experience this too, but studies show that young women were more so affected. 

• "Concerned with achieving male approval" - reminds me of something Wolf says in The Beauty Myth. 
• "Scholars had already begun to speculate that this drop in self esteem may be due to girls' realisation of the gender role that they are internalising, is deemed inferior to the male gender role."

They start to value themselves less as they believe in the gender norms society has created.

Punk girls rejected this concept. They didn't want to fit into gender norms. With their appearance they parodied everything society told them was 'feminine' and did the opposite of what society said they should.