Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory - Hardcover

Driscoll, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231119127 ISBN 13: 9780231119122

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2002

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Book by Driscoll Catherine

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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

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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."

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0231119127
• ISBN 13: 9780231119122
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352