wrote a tiny bit on the gender politics of Boy's Own a couple of years back... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Claire and Jose Get Off Their Cake: Ecstasy, Raving and Women’s Pleasure in 1990s Britain
Momentous shifts in British nightlife were catalysed by the drug ecstasy during the 1990s. This article explores the tension between older attitudes towards women’s drug use and new discourses of f...
@theguardian.com‘It was wonderfully innocent’: Boy’s Own, the fanzine that defined the acid house generation
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‘It was wonderfully innocent’: Boy’s Own, the fanzine that defined the acid house generation
A new book collects every single issue of the mag that started as an in-joke among friends and became a subcultural behemoth. Its creators recall the parties, the music, the fashion, and being ‘right on one, matey’
