Teenage kicks : girls growing up in Britain 1956-1972 / [Penny Tinkler ; illustrations by Candice Purwin].

"‘Teenage Kicks’ tells the stories of teenage girls growing up in Britain in 1956 to 1974. It as inspired by a research project called ‘Girlhood and Later Life’… As part of this project, we interviewed women born between 1939 and 1952 about their experiences as teenagers and young women. The stories in Teenage Kicks are based on some of the stories they told us, though we have changed some details and added others. All these stories take place between the mid 1950s and the mid 1970s, which we often look back on as time of great social, political and economic change. But change does not happen instantly, or equally. Some girls manage to take advantage of new opportunities and freedoms, but others get a taste of freedom that quickly dissolves or find themselves pulled into the same lives as generations of women before them. And some details are timeless: the schoolgirls dreams, the buzz of earning your own money, handing out with friends, 10pm curfews, the favourite songs and moving in with your boyfriend only to find that he does the washing up the wrong way. Thank you to all the women who took part in our research: we couldn’t have made this zine without your stories and we only wish we could have included all your stories. Thanks also go to Hazel Burke and to our interviewers: Laura Fenton, Resto Cruz, Luciana Lang and to the research team at Manchester BME Network."--From page 3.