Girls Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory
| Author/creator | Driscoll, Catherine Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press |
| Description | 352 p. ill 23.600 x 015.900 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Summary | Annotation <p>The Spice Girls, <i>Tank Girl</i> 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."</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2001047331 |
| ISBN | 9780231119122 |
| ISBN | 0231119127 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780231119122 |
| Stock number | 00006325 |