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Pages: 237
Authors: Elizabeth Marshall
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies throug
Witnessing Girlhood
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Leigh Gilmore
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-17 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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When more than 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young, competitive gymnasts, they exposed an
Battling Girlhood
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Kristen B. Proehl
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and
The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art
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Pages: 118
Authors: Leisa Rundquist
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book is the first to examine Henry Darger’s conceptual and visual representation of “girls” and girlhood. Specifically, Leisa Rundquist charts the ar
Girlhood and the Plastic Image
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Heather Warren-Crow
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-03 - Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

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You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. T