Angela McRobbie

Angela McRobbie (born 1951) is a British sociologist and cultural theorist.  Since the 1970s, she has been associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and is a leading figure in British Cultural Studies and Feminist Media Studies.

She is a professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she continues to teach and supervise doctoral students as well as support various curricular initiatives.

McRobbie’s academic research spans five decades. Influenced by the work of  Professor Stuart Hall at Birmingham, 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.

McRobbie’s most famous works stretch from her mid 1970s study of ''Jackie'' ''(''magazine) to ''The Aftermath of Feminism'' (2008, German edition published in 2010). This book draws on Foucault to decipher the various technologies of gender which are directed towards young woman as "subjects of capacity". This book was followed by ''Feminism and the Politics of Resilience'' in 2020 which extends the analysis of feminism and neoliberalism to include the impact of welfare reductions and poverty shaming. In 2024 she published two books, one on the German artist Ulrike Ottinger and the other titled ''Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: the Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards.  ''

McRobbie has contributed to newspapers and magazines since the late 1970s,  including  BBC Radio 4, ''Women’s Hour'' and ''Thinking Allowed'', and has written for opendemocracy and ''the Guardian'''s Comment is Free. Provided by Wikipedia