Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory

by Catherine Driscoll

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231119135
• ISBN13: 9780231119139
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher