A collection of essays in which McRobbie considers key debates in cultural studies, this book provides a good overview of the central issues discussed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the essay ‘Postmodernism and Popular Culture,’ for example, she suggests that postmodernity could provide a space for political transformation (as opposed to more pessimistic readings of its homogenizing tendencies). See also ‘Feminism, Postmodernism, and the ‘Real Me’,’ and ‘The Moral Panic in the Age of the Postmodern Mass Media.’