Girls - Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture & Cultural Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-11913-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Driscoll, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Towards a Genealogy of GirlhoodPart I. Becoming a Girl1. The Girl of the Period2. Feminine Adolescence3. PubertyPart II. Becoming a Woman4. Daughters: Theories of Girlhood5. Sex and the Single Girl: Studies in Girlhood6. Becoming Bride: Girls and Cultural StudiesPart III. Girls and Cultural Production7. Distraction: Girls and Mass Culture8. In Visible Bodies9. The Girl Market and Girl CultureConclusion: The Girl of the CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Driscoll is Senior 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 South Atlantic Quarterly.