ANGELA McROBBIE has written on young women and popular culture for many years. She is Professor of Communication at Goldsmiths College and the author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture, British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry and In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion, Music.

Reviews of the first edition: '...always an elegant and lucid writer, Angela McRobbie is at her best doing cultural analysis.' - Mica Nava, Marxism Today 'Refreshingly prepared to break with convention, McRobbie's work is thoughtful, truthful and committed.' - Tribune

• Introduction: A West Midlands MemoirGirls and Subcultures; with J.GarberSettling Accounts with Subcultures: A Feminist CritiqueThe Culture of Working-Class GirlsJackie Magazine: Romantic Individualism and the Teenage GirlRock and Sexuality; with S.FrithTeenage Mothers: A New Social StateMoral Panics in Multi-Mediated Social Worlds; with S.ThorntonSweet Smell of Success? New Ways of Being Young Women.