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by Catherine Driscoll

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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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THIS FIRST CHAPTER considers the idea of the girl as an historically specific term and as a set of culturally specific histories.

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  • Title Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory
  • Author Catherine Driscoll
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date August 15, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780231119122 / 0231119127
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 5.96 x 1.03 in (24.03 x 15.14 x 2.62 cm)
  • Age range 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Reading level 1590
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Family / Parenting / Childbirth
  • Library of Congress subjects Teenage girls, Girls in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001047331
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.235

About the author

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.
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