Overview
The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique ""girl culture?"" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of ""girlhood"" or ""feminine adolescence,"" and then argues that both ""girls"" and ""culture"" as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. She relates the increasing public visibility of girls in western and westernized cultures to the evolution and expansion of theories about feminine adolescence in fields such as psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, history, and politics. Presenting her argument as a Foucauldian genealogy, Driscoll discusses the ways in which young women have been involved in the production and consumption of theories and representations of girls, feminine adolescence, and the ""girl market.""
Full Product Details
Author: Catherine Driscoll
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.539kg
ISBN: 9780231119139
ISBN 10: 0231119135
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 21 August 2002
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Driscoll discusses the ways in which young women have been involved in the production and consumption of theories and representations of girls, feminine adolescence, and the 'girl market.' -- Family Therapy The result is an erudite and crisp exegesis of many contemporary theorists, interspersed with readings of popular culture itself... it is a smart and suggestive intellectual montage. -- Jane H. Hunter, American Studies A lucid and original study of girl culture... both challenging and rewarding. -- Emma Liggins, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
[There is a] special urgency to identify the way girl culture is produced and consumed. Catherine Driscoll promises to take on this task in Girls. -- Terri Apter, Times Literary Supplement (London) Driscoll discusses the ways in which young women have been involved in the production and consumption of theories and representations of girls, feminine adolescence, and the 'girl market.' -- Family Therapy The result is an erudite and crisp exegesis of many contemporary theorists, interspersed with readings of popular culture itself... it is a smart and suggestive intellectual montage. -- Jane H. Hunter, American Studies A lucid and original study of girl culture... both challenging and rewarding. -- Emma Liggins, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"""[There is a] special urgency to identify the way girl culture is produced and consumed. Catherine Driscoll promises to take on this task in Girls."" -- Terri Apter, Times Literary Supplement (London) ""Driscoll discusses the ways in which young women have been involved in the production and consumption of theories and representations of girls, feminine adolescence, and the 'girl market.'"" -- Family Therapy ""The result is an erudite and crisp exegesis of many contemporary theorists, interspersed with readings of popular culture itself... it is a smart and suggestive intellectual montage."" -- Jane H. Hunter, American Studies ""A lucid and original study of girl culture... both challenging and rewarding."" -- Emma Liggins, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"
Author Information
Catherine Driscoll is lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has published essays in various scholarly journals and books, most recently Deleuze and Feminism and Deleuzian Becomings.
