Feminism and Youth Culture

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

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.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.