Full Description
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.
Contents
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
