num_pages: 255
description: [First edition]Feminism and Youth Culture brings together eight separate essays written by Angela McRobbie over a period of over ten years. The first five of these appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s in various volumes and journals associated with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. The final three chapters are new and represent an extension of that ground marked out in the earlier work. Various themes wind their way through this volume; the effect of sexual inequality in the everyday lives of working-class girls; the blindness of male sociologists to questions of gender; the pressure on teenage girls to achieve idealised expectations of femininity; the pleasure of teenage femininity; the pain of poverty arising from teenage motherhood.Feminism and Youth Culture represents both a broad and a detailed approach to an area of study which has been marginalised in the existing sociology of youth.
language: English
title: Feminism and youth culture: From 'Jackie' to 'Just seventeen'
titlecomplete: Feminism and youth culture: From 'Jackie' to 'Just seventeen' (Youth questions)
genres: Theory, Feminism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 47
publisher: Macmillan