The results showed that four of the five women had improved their balance and increased their degree of confidence in performing common daily activities without falling. The improved balance could be related to the increased activity level through walking outdoors. The treatment programme can be a useful model for physiotherapists in their work with balance problems in elderly people.

The purpose of this article is to explore the practices of Swedish hi-fi enthusiasts from a gender perspective. It builds on the assumption that hi-fi enthusiasts may be understood as participants in a subculture, the structure of which provides a possible explanation to its masculine gender coding. The empirical material is based on interviews with hi-fi enthusiasts, with questions centering on aspects such as music technology, gender, and listening. Two primary aspects of the subculture are discussed: a) the acquisition of subcultural capital (Thornton, 1995), and b) ways of listening.