Feminism and youth culture : from 'Jackie' to 'Just seventeen' / Angela McRobbie.
By: McRobbie, Angela
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BookSeries: Youth questions.Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1991Description: xx, 255 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0333452631 (hardcover) :; 033345264X (pbk.).Subject(s): Teenage girls -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Working class women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Teenage mothers -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Popular culture -- Great Britain | Feminist criticism -- Great Britain | Women's periodicals, EnglishDDC classification: 305.235 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.235 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00018748 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'...always an elegant and lucid writer, Angela McRobbie is at her best doing cultural analysis.' Marxism Today Feminism and Youth Culture collects together eight separate essays on female youth culture written by Angela McRobbie over a period of almost 13 years. Topics include the changing place of romance in girls' comics and magazines, the everyday culture of working class girls, the appeal of dance narratives for pre-teenage readers and viewers, teenage mothers and feminist critiques of subcultural theory.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Girls and subcultures (co-written with Jenny Garber) -- Settling accounts with subcultures: a feminist critique -- The culture of working-glass girls -- The politics of feminist research: between talk, text and action -- Jackie Magazine: Romantic individualism and the teenage girl -- Jackie and just seventeen: Girl's comics and magazines in the 1980s -- Dance narratives and fantasies of achievement -- Teenage mothers: a new social state?