Spare Rib, Shocking Pink and the Politics of Age in 1980s Feminism

By Laura Tisdall “Shocking Pink, from its very first issue, laid out the issues facing young women by explicitly reckoning with age as an axis of oppression in a way that Spare Rib tended to avoid. In this way, although the magazine set itself up as in opposition to mainstream eighties teenage magazines like Jackie, …

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