The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change (Culture, Representation and Identity series)

McRobbie trenchantly argues that it is precisely on these grounds that invidious forms of gender -re-stabilisation are able to be re-established. Consumer culture, she argues, encroaches on the terrain of so called female freedom, appears supportive of female success only to tie women into new post-feminist neurotic dependencies.

These nine essays span a wide range of topics, including

- the UK government's 'new sexual contract' to young women,

- popular TV makeover programmes,

- feminist theories of backlash and the 'undoing' of sexual politics,

- feminism in a global frame

- the 'illegible rage' underlying contemporary femininities.