The 1990s: ‘It was a decade in which women could offer reason: people still talk about the Scully effect’

​The decade was full of contradictions for young women. From Buffy to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, it was also a time of superhumans – all of whom were white

I began the 1990s doing something very specific at a disco on a highly anticipated end of primary school camp in Cornwall. Wearing leggings and an oversized, DayGlo T-shirt, I was singing Colour Me Badd. “Ooooooooh … I Wanna Sex You Up!”

If a No 1 song by a boyband from Oklahoma, inappropriately riling prepubescent girls, doesn’t sound like an obvious feminist anthem, that’s because it wasn’t. What it was, though, was an early indication that attitudes towards gender and sexuality were changing.

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