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Girls : Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory - Catherine Driscoll

Girls

Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory

By: Catherine Driscoll

Hardcover | 21 August 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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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"[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

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