Becoming Girl: Collective Biography and the Production of Girlhood

ISBN-13: 9780889615137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 250 str.

Marnina Gonick;Susanne Gannon

Opis

Becoming Girl interrogates the everyday of girlhood through the collaborative feminist methodology of collective biography. Located within the emergent interdisciplinary field of girlhood studies, this scholarly collection demonstrates how memories can be used to investigate the ways in which girlhood is culturally, historically, and socially constructed. Narrative vignettes of memory are produced and collaboratively investigated to explore relations of power, longing, and belonging, and to critically examine the ways in which girlhood is constituted. These are snapshot moments that, when analyzed, expose the social, embodied, and affective processes of “becoming girl,” making them visible in new ways. Incorporating the concepts of Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault, the authors investigate food, popular culture, sexuality, difference, literacy, family photographs, and trauma.Bringing together international and interdisciplinary girlhood scholars, this volume provides an innovative, inclusive, and collaborative method for understanding the relationship between the individual and the collective.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Girlhood Studies and Collective Biography - Marnina Gonick and Susanne Gannon
• Section I: Methodology
• Chapter 1: ""Choir Practice"" in Three Movements: Analyzing a Story of Girlhood through Deleuze, Butler, and Foucault - Susanne Gannon and Marnina Gonick
• Chapter 2: Collective Biography and the Question of Difference - Marnina Gonick, Susan Walsh, and Marion Brown
• Chapter 3: Deterritorializing Collective Biography - Susanne Gannon, Michele Byers, Mythili Rajiva, and Susan Walsh
• Chapter 4: Things That Stay (and Things That Don't): Temporality and Affect in Collective Memoriesof Sexuality, Bodies, and Girlhood - Michele Byers, Susanne Gannon, and Mythili Rajiva
• Section II: Themes
• Chapter 5: ""Eating Subjects"": Girlhood, Food, and Relations of Difference - Michele Byers and Mythili Rajiva
• Chapter 6: Girls, Sexuality, and Popular Culture: ""Hey Pony! Come On!"" - Susanne Gannon, Michele Byers, and Marnina Gonick
• Chapter 7: Trauma and the Girl - Mythili Rajiva
• Chapter 8: Picture Me: Relations of Body, Image, and Subject in Collective Biography - Marion Brown and Susanne Gannon
• Chapter 9: Ruptures in the Heterosexual Matrix through Teenage Flows and Multiplicities - Bronwyn Davies, Marnina Gonick, Kristina Gottschall, and Jo Lampert
• Chapter 10: The Blank Page: Literacy, Girlhood, and Neoliberalism - Marnina Gonick
• Chapter 11: From Workshop to Classroom: Collective Biography as Feminist Pedagogy - Michele Byers, with Caroline Brunet, Amanda Dickie, Stefanie Frisina, Daniel Gervais, Patrick Russell, and Janis Sampson
• Contributor Biographies
• Index