"Academics and professionals working with young women face a series of paradoxes. Over the last 20 years, the lives of young women in the UK and Europe have been transformed. They have gained considerable freedom and independence, but at the very same time, new, less tangible forms of constraint and subordination now play a defining role in the formation of their everyday subjectivities and identities. Young women have come to exemplify ..."
Feminism for Girls An Adventure Story by AngelaMcrobbie, Trisha Mccabe Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 1982 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7100-0961-6, ISBN: 0-7100-0961-5
"Feminism for Girls presents feminist perspectives on aspects of adolescence which have been chosen for their special relevance to the lives and experiences of girls and young women today. Illustrated throughout, chapters cover themes and topics which include romance and sexuality, girls’ magazines, careers and the reality of being a black girl in society today. Housewives look back at their youth and a sixteen-year-old girl writes vivid ..."
Feminism and the Politics of 'Resilience' Essays on Gender, Media and the End of Welfare (Hardback) by AngelaMcrobbie Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Polity Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2506-5, ISBN: 1-5095-2506-8
"In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism."
"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 resea ..."
Back To Reality Social Experience and Cultural Studies by AngelaMcrobbie Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-4455-7, ISBN: 0-7190-4455-3
"This volume appears at a critical moment for the future of cultural studies. What is the future for this academic subject when the ‘subject’ itself has been so fragmented and dispersed? The aim of this book is to extend the political and the intellectual concerns of Cultural Studies to include the realm of social experience. From rap to rave, from designer menswear to Marie Claire, from rock to sex tourism, each essay tackles issues of ..."
Feminism for Girls(Reprint) (RLE Feminist Theory): An Adventure Story by AngelaMcrobbie, Trisha Mccabe Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-63674-2, ISBN: 0-415-63674-4
"Feminism for Girls presents feminist perspectives on aspects of adolescence which have been chosen for their special relevance to the lives and experiences of girls and young women today. Illustrated throughout, chapters cover themes and topics which include romance and sexuality, girls’ magazines, careers and the reality of being a black girl in society today. Housewives look back at their youth and a sixteen-year-old girl writes vivid ..."
"This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie "Something's Gotta Give" and the British television series "10 Years Younger." Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a ..."
Feminism for Girls(1st Edition) (RLE Feminist Theory): An Adventure Story by AngelaMcrobbie, Trisha Mccabe Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-00799-4, ISBN: 1-138-00799-4
"Feminism for Girls presents feminist perspectives on aspects of adolescence which have been chosen for their special relevance to the lives and experiences of girls and young women today. Illustrated throughout, chapters cover themes and topics which include romance and sexuality, girls' magazines, careers and the reality of being a black girl in society today. Housewives look back at their youth and a ..."
Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses Anthology of Fashion and Music (Youth questions) by AngelaMcrobbie Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1989 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-39652-0, ISBN: 0-333-39652-9
Be Creative(1st Edition) Making a Living in the New Culture Industries by Dr AngelaMcrobbie Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6195-7, ISBN: 0-7456-6195-5
"Segal, L. (ed.) (1983) What Is To Be Done About the Family? Penguin Books,
Harmondsworth. Shilliam, R. (2018) Race and the Undeserving Poor, Agenda
Publishing, Newcastle UK. Skeggs, B. (1997) Formations of Class and Gender: ..."
Cultural Studies Teacher's Book by AngelaMcrobbie Hardcover, Published by Hodder Arnold H&S ISBN-13: 978-0-340-65258-9, ISBN: 0-340-65258-6
"We are living in an age of crisis―or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status ..."
"We are living in an age of crisis―or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status ..."
"Busche, Mart, and Ellen Wesemüller. 2010. Mit Widersprüchen für neue
Wirklichkeiten. Ein Manifest für Mädchen_arbeit [With contradictions towards new
realities. A manifesto for girls work]. In Feministische Mädchenarbeit
weiterdenken. Zur Aktualität einer bildungspolitischen Praxis [Thinking ahead
feminist girls work: Updating an educational-political practice], ed. M. Busche, L.
Maikowsky, E. Wesemüller, and I. Pohlkamp, 323–40. B ..."
Be Creative Making a Living in the New Culture Industries by AngelaMcrobbie 224 Pages, Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8810-7, ISBN: 0-7456-8810-1
"The establishment of a biannual Berlin Fashion Week (sponsored by Mercedes
Benz) has provided young Berlin designers with the kind of institutional frame
needed for them to achieve visibility nationally and internationally (Exner 2011).
The event itself, as well as all the promotional activity surrounding it, creates a
narrative that allows the designers to show their work and to make connections
with key contacts from across the w ..."
Be Creative Making a Living in the New Culture Industries by AngelaMcrobbie 224 Pages, Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5663-2, ISBN: 0-7456-5663-3
"That this kind of conduct has become so routine in upscale restaurants, in art
galleries, on the flight deck, in the department store, and even, as Tatjana
Turanskyj's film Eine Flexible Frau (as referred to in the Introduction) shows, the
call centre, ..."
In the Culture Society Art, Fashion and Popular Music by AngelaMcrobbie 176 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-18031-6, ISBN: 1-136-18031-1
"... being a rather pompous, old-fashioned child, giving pop his full unbridled
attention. A week later the Guardian ran a lengthy interview with Terry Hall, who
had started off with The Specials and then set up the Fun Boy Three, and has
recently ..."