This lecture provides a conjunctural account (echoing Stuart Hall) of feminism and gender politics in the UK over the last two decades with reference to the analytic purchase of a series of figurations (top girls to tradwives) which permit a fuller understanding of the passage from neoliberal cultural formations to the new authoritarianism. Contesting the landscape of recent 'popular feminisms' the lecture makes the case for feminist theory rather to endorse 'pedagogic feminism' conjoining this with a re-visiting of the category of the 'ordinary woman' if not the 'housewife'.

Angela McRobbie is Prof. Em. Goldsmiths College University of London and Fellow of the British Academy. Her academic career began at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham in 1974. 

This Keynote Lecture will be introduced by Prof Dr Gesa Stedman, Director and Chair British Literature and Culture, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Registration necessary at: events.gbz@hu-berlin.de