Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

by Angela Mcrobbie
Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

by Angela Mcrobbie

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Overview

A feminist analysis of young women and popular culture and a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture.

Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards by Angela McRobbie brings together the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) essays of the 1970s and ‘80s with a new introductory chapters and four new chapters of updated analysis on music, magazines, vintage fashion and youth culture. The early work provides both a feminist analysis of young women and popular culture as well as a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture and the ways in which an ideology of adolescent femininity functioned so as to subdue and restrain young women in passive and subordinate gender unequal positions. These chapters also shine a light on the kinds of methodologies being developed at Birmingham University CCCS as cultural studies was emerging as a distinct field of study. These essays when first published found their way onto the university undergraduate curriculum across the world and were translated into many languages. Adopting an intersectional perspective and engaging with questions such as the “category of the girl,” the new chapters extend the field of study in a lively and accessible sociological voice. The book will be of keen interest for students in Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies and Literary Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913380441
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 08/27/2024
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 248

About the Author

Angela McRobbie is a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. She has also been awarded an Honorary DPhil from Glasgow University. Her field of expertise traverses gender, media and popular culture, feminist theory and the critique of neoliberalism, creative economy and the fashion industry.

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From the Publisher

"At once intellectual history and feminist document of this moment, Angela McRobbie’s Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies reminds us that McRobbie has accompanied European and American girls and women for over 50 years. For scholars, the book is a gift to teaching that history.  For students, it is a rich and personal account of writing that history and narrating changes in one’s own thinking, in dialogue with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and its leading authors, like Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart, Paul Gilroy and Paul Willis, and McRobbie’s feminist co-author Jenny Garber."
—Lisa Henderson, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario

"Dating back to the 1970s and continuing to the present day, cultural studies scholar and sociologist Angela McRobbie stands alone as the founder of an entire tradition of feminist sociological investigations of cultural influence. She has inspired literally generations of feminist scholars and continues to do so. This much overdue volume identifies her most influential pieces and makes them easily accessible to a new generation of cultural studies scholars."
—Andrea L. Press, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology, University of Virginia

"For an astounding 50 years, Angela McRobbie has led the way in feminist cultural studies. This collection brings together classic pieces from the past with vital new essays on gender, race, class and power. Across the decades, every page teems with insightful and stimulating ideas."
—David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds

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