Feminism, culture and the intellectual process
This submission to the University of London for a PhD by publication is 
composed of ten articles published in journals and edited collections 
between 1980 and 1990. The work covers a wide span chronologically and 
thematically and for the purpose of this presentation has been divided 
into four sections. The articles in Section I examine the history and 
implications of key debates within feminism and were published between 1980 
and 1983. An additional piece of the same period, which covers some of the 
same ground but was written and published in Spanish, is included in the 
Appendix. The articles in Section II were published between 1982 and 1984 
and focus on gender in youth work and schooling. The first piece is an 
ethnographic study of young women in north London who attended a girls 
project. The second is a historical analysis of gender difference in youth 
service provision and the third explores the symbolic meaning of the urban 
and the domestic in the education of girls. Section III contains two 
pieces on child sexual abuse. The first, published in 1984, looks at 
questions of power and policy in the context of a school; the second, 
published four years later, focuses on the politics of representation. The 
three articles in Section IV, published since 1987, confirm this movement 
into cultural analysis and investigate theorisations of consumerism, 
advertising and identity. The ten articles are linked to each other by the 
introduction which traces the historical, biographical and conceptual 
context in which the work was produced and provides a framework in which 
the intellectual process itself becomes an object of study. The commentary, 
which explores in greater detail aspects of the production and reception of 
each piece and highlights key themes, provides an additional connecting 
thread.