Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know
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The Rise of the Spice Girls
The Spice Girls are the great success of the Britpop world. They gave a whole generation of girls and young women a feeling that you could negotiate the world on your own terms. The phrase girl power, which predated them, is a bit trite but it does have some resonance to it. It is a uniquely female cultural expression in a way that I'm not sure had really been seen before.
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