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.

New edition of a classic text in British cultural studies
Reputation and high media profile of author
Substantial revisions made to text include a new introduction and concluding chapter and two new coauthored chapters

Autorentext
ANGELA McROBBIE is Professor of Communication at Goldsmiths College, UK.

Inhalt
Introduction: A West Midlands Memoir.- Girls and Subcultures; with J.Garber.- Settling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist Critique.- The Culture of Working-Class Girls.- Jackie Magazine: Romantic Individualism and the Teenage Girl.- Rock and Sexuality; with S.Frith.- Teenage Mothers: A New Social State.- Moral Panics in Multi-Mediated Social Worlds; with S.Thornton.- Sweet Smell of Success? New Ways of Being Young Women.