Laddette

It was as true of the English in India who dressed for dinner, just as they would have done at home, in the pre-monsoon heat of the Raj as it is for the lager louts and laddettes who crave nothing more than an ersatz pub when they holiday in Ibiza.

The news media have been heavily implicated in popularising fears over new categories of violent girls – explicitly classed figures, constructed as abject laddettes who are binge-drinkers and/or belong to violent gangs of dispossessed youth and wreak havoc on civic society by becoming too much like boys (Jackson, 2006).

Furthermore, all the interviewed laddettes who behaved like this consider their attitude to be ‘typically masculine’, as hegemonic female attitudes do not tend to challenge the dominant ethos at school.