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

Introduction: Towards a Genealogy of Girlhood

Becoming a Girl

The Girl of the Period

Feminine Adolescence

Puberty

Becoming a Woman

Daughters: Theories of Girlhood

Sex and the Single Girl: Studies in Girlhood

Becoming Bride: Girls and Cultural Studies

Girls and Cultural Production

Distraction: Girls and Mass Culture

In Visible Bodies

The Girl Market and Girl Culture

Conclusion: The Girl of the Century

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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