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Subculture vs Girlzine - What's the difference?

subculture | girlzine |

As nouns the difference between subculture and girlzine

is that subculture is a portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features while girlzine is a zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.

As a verb subculture

is (biology) to transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture.

subculture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features.
    • The goth subculture has its own mode of dress, and it has a characteristic musical style.
  • * 1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , page 7.
    • Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture , in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
  • (biology) A culture made by transferring microorganisms from a previous culture to a fresh growth medium

    • Verb

    (subcultur)
  • (biology) To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, Heidi F. Kaeppler et al., Silicon carbide fiber-mediated DNA delivery into plant cells, Plant Cell Reports citation
    • , passage=Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d. }}

    See also

    * (wikipedia "subculture") ----

    girlzine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.
  • * 2000 , Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues
    • Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx .
  • * 2001 , Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movement
    • On another floor there was a fanzine workshop, as well as a putting-on-gigs workshop, an extensive girlzine stall and a rape crisis information point.
  • * 2007 , Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media (page 2)
    • On the one hand feminist ideas are increasingly taken for granted across a range of media and genres, vibrant girlzines spring up all over the world, and the Web is home to an enormous diversity of feminist ideas