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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mo Foster, Derek Wall, Kenan Malik, Paul Gilroy, Michael Craig-Martin, Paul Patrick, Saul Newman, Victor Burgin, Blake Morrison, Chris French, Scott Lash, Brian Brockless, Darragh Morgan, Lavinia Greenlaw, Ben Pimlott, Derek Briggs, Angela Mcrobbie, Anthony Milner, Les Back, Peter Brinson, Richard Wentworth, Dick Witts, Max Velmans, Anthony Joseph, Mark Harman, George Barger, Sally O'reilly, Geoff Whitty, Bart Moore-Gilbert, David Mclellan, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Jon Thompson, James Erber, Brian Morris, Chris Baldick, Irit Rogoff. Excerpt: Angela McRobbie (born 1951) is a British cultural theorist and commentator. She combines the study of different dimensions of youth culture with a commentary on development in cultural theory and politics. Biography McRobbie studied as a postgraduate at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. She taught in London and later at Loughborough University . She is Professor for Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London . Research McRobbie s best-known work revolves around the analysis of gender in youth culture. She was critical of the work on subcultures at the CCCS completed by Paul Willis and Dick Hebdige , because of its lack of attention to gender. Furthermore, she stressed the need to analyse the nature of young women s cultural life, in order to establish whether it was structured differently from that of boys. This approach led to papers on the culture of femininity, romance, pop music and teenybop culture, the teenage magazine Jackie and so on. These earlier essays can be found in Feminism and Youth Culture (1991). McRobbie refined her approach and the entailed research through the 1980s. She discussed the importance of dance in female youth cultures and analysed the developing informal economy of...