Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory

Catherine Driscoll

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Paper, 352 pages, 13 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11913-9
$26.50 / £18.50

August, 2002
Cloth, 352 pages, 13 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11912-2
$85.00 / £58.50

"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.'" — Family Therapy

"The result is an erudite and crisp exegesis of many contemporary theorists, interspersed with readings of popular culture itself. . . . it is a smart and suggestive intellectual montage." — Jane H. Hunter, American Studies

"A lucid and original study of girl culture... both challenging and rewarding." — Emma Liggins, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

"Catherine Driscoll's book is a truly enlightening foray into a complex cultural thicket, rife with mystification, ignorance, and special pleading. Girls and girlhood become the locus for an extraordinary tour de force in Girls, a primer of modern thought, a contribution to cultural theory, and an explication of the cultural practices which have located that evanescent, ineffable creation—the Girl—at the heart of both public and private spheres." — Jennifer Wicke, University of Virginia

Related Subjects

• Women's Studies

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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