Girls, Texts, Cultures
Title | Girls, Texts, Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Bradford |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2015-05-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1771120215 |
This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine these disciplinary approaches in novel ways with insights from international studies, postcolonial studies, game studies, and other fields. Several of the authors engage in activist and policy-development work around girls who experience poverty and marginalization. Each essay is concerned in one way or another with the politics of girlhood as they manifest in national and cultural contexts, in the everyday practices of girls, and in textual ideologies and agendas. In contemporary Western societies girls and girlhood function to some degree as markers of cultural reproduction and change. The essays in this book proceed from the assumption that girls are active participants in the production of texts and cultural forms; they offer accounts of the diversity of girls’ experience and complex significances of texts by, for, and about girls.
Queer Girls and Popular Culture
Title | Queer Girls and Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Driver |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780820479361 |
Textbook
The Girl's Own
Title | The Girl's Own PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Nelson |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2010-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820336955 |
The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises. The institutions, practices, and literatures discussed reveal the ways in which the Girl expressed her independence, as well as the ways in which she was presented and controlled. As the contributors note, nineteenth-century visions of girlhood were extremely ambiguous. The adolescent girl was a fascinating and troubling figure to Victorian commentators, especially in debates surrounding female sexuality and behavior. The Girl's Own combines literary and cultural history in its discussion of both British and American texts and practices. Among the topics addressed are the nineteenth-century attempt to link morality and diet; the making of heroines in biographies for girls; Lewis Carroll's and John Millais's iconographies of girlhood in, respectively, their photographs and paintings; genre fiction for and by girls; and the effort to reincorporate teenage unwed mothers into the domestic life of Victorian America.
Girls
Title | Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Driscoll |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 391 |
Release | 2002-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0231504721 |
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."
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
Title | Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | M. Smith |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2011-07-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230308120 |
While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the emergence of fictional girl adventurers, castaways and 'ripping' schoolgirls to the British Empire.
The Girls' History and Culture Reader
Title | The Girls' History and Culture Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Forman-Brunell |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0252077687 |
This work provides scholars, instructors, and students with influential essays that have defined the field of American girls' history and culture. Covering girlhood and the relationships between girls and women, the volume tackles pivotal themes such as education, work, play, sexuality, consumption, and the body.
Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Title | Girlhood and the Politics of Place PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Mitchell |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857456474 |
Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.