Feminism and Youth Culture: From ‘Jackie’ to ‘Just Seventeen’ (Youth Questions)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Girls and Subcultures....Pages 1-15 Settling Accounts with Subculture: A Feminist Critique....Pages 16-34 The Culture of Working-Class Girls....Pages 35-60 The Politics of Feminist Research: Between Talk, Text and Action....Pages 61-80 Jackie Magazine: Romantic Individualism and the Teenage Girl....Pages 81-134 Jackie and Just Seventeen: Girls’ Comics and Magazines in the 1980s....Pages 135-188 Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement....Pages 189-219 Teenage Mothers: A New Social State?....Pages 220-242 Back Matter....Pages 243-255 First Five Of The Eight Essays Appeared In Journals Etc., Associated With The Centre For Contemporary Cultural Studies At The University Of Birmingham. Angela Mcrobbie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A sociological examination of the influences and effects of various subcultural elements on adolescent girls from a feminist perspective Very little seems to have been written about the role of girls in youth cultural groupings.