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Feminism and Youth Culture

Feminism and Youth Culture

by Angela McRobbie
Feminism and Youth Culture

Feminism and Youth Culture

by Angela McRobbie

Overview

This welcome second edition of a classic text brings together six essays from the original edition with two co-authored pieces and a lively new introduction and concluding chapter that considers the changes over the last twenty years impacting on young women today. The book ranges across an important spectrum of topics: from teenage sexuality, young mothers and girls' magazines, to the role of feminism and the politics of feminist research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333770320
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/19/2000
Edition description: 2nd ed. 2000
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

ANGELA McROBBIE has written on young women and popular culture for many years. She is Professor of Communication at Goldsmiths College and the author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture, British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry and In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion, Music.
ANGELA McROBBIE has written on young women and popular culture for many years. She is Professor of Communication at Goldsmiths College and the author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture, British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry and In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion, Music.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A West Midlands Memoir
Girls and Subcultures; with J.Garber
Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique
The Culture of Working-Class Girls
Jackie Magazine: Romantic Individualism and the Teenage Girl
Rock and Sexuality; with S.Frith
Teenage Mothers: A New Social State
Moral Panics in Multi-Mediated Social Worlds; with S.Thornton
Sweet Smell of Success? New Ways of Being Young Women.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Reviews of the first edition:'...always an elegant and lucid writer, Angela McRobbie is at her best doing cultural analysis.' - Mica Nava, Marxism Today

'Refreshingly prepared to break with convention, McRobbie's work is thoughtful, truthful and committed.' - Tribune

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