Post Feminism and Popular Culture; Bridget Jones and the New Gender
Regime
Feminism Undone? The Cultural Politics of Disarticulation
Top Girls? Young Women and the New Sexual Contract
Illegible Rage: Post-Feminist Disorders.
What Not to Wear; Post-Feminist Symbolic Violence
Conclusion; Inside and Outside the Feminist Academy
Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London, and her recent books include: British Fashion Design (Routledge, 1998), In the Culture Society, (Routledge, 1999), and Feminism and Youth Culture: Second Edition (Palgrave, 2000)
McRobbie has written a profound and profoundly disturbing analysis
of the state of feminism in contemporary Britain. Weaving together
analyses of culture, economics, politics and everyday life, this is
a superb demonstration of why cultural studies matters, and of why
McRobbie remains one of its most original and important
contributors. This book will enlighten you, anger you, inspire you,
and force you to ask new questions - I can′t ask for anything more
from a book.
*Larry Grossberg*
McRobbie has produced a landmark text. She argues for a form of
feminism that is aware of the contemporary complexities of global
media culture while still attentive to political questions of
identity, engagement and justice. The Afternath of Feminism is
highly sophisticated and theoretically informed, yet also readable
and inspiring. It is essential reading for anyone interested in
contemporary cultural politics.
*Claire Colebrook*
Angela McRobbie has written a courageous and much-needed book,
exploring the after-effects of the shift to neoliberalism in which
young women today can appear to have everything they wanted,
presented in an array of choice and empowerment. She interrogates
its dark underbelly and exposes the huge losses for women that
ensue.
*Sociology*
The inter-disciplinary nature of McRobbie′s account is one of its
strengths, drawing as it does on psychoanalysis, feminist sociology
and cultural studies to provide a powerful breadth of analysis… for
a thought-provoking and articulate analysis of what is left for
feminism - and what has been lost - this book is excellent.
*Psychology of Women Review*
Angela McRobbie is one of the most prolific and inspiring feminist
theorists in the wide field of cultural and media studies... the
compilation of these essays in one volume brilliantly shows the
consistency in McRobbie′s analysis of gender in widely different
contemporary cultural products and discourses.
*Liesbet van Zoonen*
To those feminists who assumed that women’s increased labor force
participation and a handful of legal victories would, perhaps,
engender a continuing commitment to socialist-feminist values, The
Aftermath of Feminism is a sobering wake-up call. McRobbie’s
various references to films, television, magazines, and popular
culture are not simply a stroll down a post-feminist lane; rather,
these texts help illuminate the forms of gender power which help
produce and reproduce women’s continued domination and
subordination. The book is an assault on ′gender mainstreaming′, or
the idea that, though feminism may have lost popularity as a public
protest movement, it is alive and well ′behind the scenes′ in the
′practical world of women’s issues′. Read the full review here.
*International Journal of Communication*
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