Your Go-To Piece of Criticism: Suzanne Scott (opens in new tab)

Today’s Go-To Piece of Criticism comes from Suzanne Scott, and it’s a wonderful quote from a book that is not cited enough, I think, in fan studies, despite being an absolutely critical underpinning of the field. Girls and Subcultures by Angela McRobbie and Jenny Garber shifted the whole field of subculture studies, which previously really only talked about male subcultures because those were the ones that were visible in public space: bikers, mods, rockers, Teddy boys, punks etc. It was McRo...