Popular culture, contemporary media practices, and feminism
Academic background
Alma mater
University of Birmingham
Academic work
Discipline
Youth culture, feminism, media studies, politics
Institutions
Goldsmiths, University of London
Angela McRobbieFBA (born 1951[1]) is a British cultural theorist, feminist, and commentator whose work combines the study of popular culture, contemporary media practices and feminism through conceptions of a third-person reflexive gaze. She is a professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
McRobbie's academic research spans almost four decades, influenced by the work of Stuart Hall and the British sociologists of the school of Birmingham in its inception, and developed from the theoretical traditions of feminism and Marxism. McRobbie has authored many books and scholarly articles on young women and popular culture, gender and sexuality, the British fashion industry, social and cultural theory, the changing world of work and the new creative economy, feminism and the rise of neoliberalism.
Her most famous book The Aftermath of Feminism (2008, German edition published in 2010), draws on Foucault to decipher the various technologies of gender which are directed towards young woman as "subjects of capacity". Her book Be Creative? Making a Living in the New Culture Industries was published in 2016 by Polity Press.
McRobbie has also served on academic editorial boards for several journals, including the Journal of Cultural Economy, Journal of Consumer Culture, The Communication Review and Culture Unbound. She regularly contributes to BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and Thinking Allowed, and has written for openDemocracy and The Guardian's Comment is Free.
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AngelaMcRobbie FBA (born 1951) is a British cultural theorist, feminist, and commentator whose work combines the study of popular culture, contemporary...
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monolithic entity and were overly generalizing in their criticism. AngelaMcRobbie suggests that adding the prefix post- to feminism undermined the strides...
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It became one of the later items associated with "chavs", or Neds. AngelaMcRobbie, professor of communications at Goldsmiths College in the UK, says...
that of his colleagues Paul Willis, Dick Hebdige, Tony Jefferson, and AngelaMcRobbie, created an international intellectual movement. As the field developed...
phallic imagery. The term was used by sociologists Simon Frith and AngelaMcRobbie in 1978 to point to the contrast between the male-dominated subculture...
trapping them in their bedroom; it was identified by a sociologist named AngelaMcRobbie.) In popular music, there has been a gendered "distinction between...
real woman's romantic novel... written for the sake of truth" and by AngelaMcRobbie as "an important book" that occupies a space "along the line between...
ISBN 978-0415555555. McRobbie, Angela; Thornton, Sarah L. (2000) [1991], "Rethinking 'moral panic' for multi-mediated social worlds", in McRobbie, Angela (ed.), Feminism...
Without Guarantees: Essays in Honour of Stuart Hall (co-edited with AngelaMcRobbie and Lawrence Grossberg), London: Verso 2004: After Empire: Melancholia...
their interest in cultural studies to Hall, including Paul Gilroy, AngelaMcRobbie, Isaac Julien, and John Akomfrah. In the words of Indian literary theorist...
ISBN 978-1496804464. McRobbie, Angela (1994). Postmodernism and Popular Culture. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 175–176. ISBN 0-203-16833X. McRobbie, Angela (1980)....
many ways, and has famously been theorized in relation to culture by AngelaMcRobbie, Laura Mulvey and others. Timothy Laurie and Jessica Kean have argued...
in Honor of Stuart Hall, eds. Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, and AngelaMcRobbie (Verso, 2000). "Wendy Brown, Professor at The European Graduate School...
unbalanced focus of boyhood in comparison to girlhood in youth research. AngelaMcRobbie, Meda Chesney-Lind, and Christine Griffin were some of the few scholars...
cultural studies theorist Paul Willis, sociologist and cultural theorist AngelaMcRobbie, media studies scholar and cultural theorist David Bailey, economist...
work leading up to Girls, but at the time this book was described by AngelaMcRobbie as "the first sustained account of how young women come to understand...
New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity to AngelaMcRobbie. Gill’s work is interdisciplinary, and she has worked in departments...
etc.. For example, AngelaMcRobbie's analysis of teenage girls based on a popular magazine at the time called 'Jackie'. McRobbie uses a 'structural feminism'...
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