Congratulations to Dr. McRobbie This book has been named to the list of books for the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).
These essays show Angela McRobbie reflecting on a range of issues which have political consequence for women, particularly young women, in a context where it is frequently assumed that progress has been made in the last 30 years, and that with gender issues now 'mainstreamed' in cultural and social life, the moment of feminism per se is now passed.
McRobbie trenchantly...
Congratulations to Dr. McRobbie This book has been named to the list of books for the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educ...
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 the pervasive sensibility of self-responsibility and self-organisation. This new gender regime demands both conceptualisation and practical response,...
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 Eur...
