Feminism and Youth Culture

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.

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.