The Girl in the Mirror
The Psychic Economy of Class in the Discourse of Girlhood Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Hey (0000-0002-4773-9836, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2009.020203 |
| OpenAlex | W2044497524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article questions Angela McRobbie's recent text The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change because it creates some interesting new vocabulary for understanding late modernity's revised sexual and cultural politics. Whilst acknowledging the sophistication of its cultural studies-inspired argument, I consider some consequences of this reading. If theory also performs as a politics of representation, I ask what happens if, in accounting for post-feminism, the theoretical status of class as an antagonistic relation is diminished. I suggest what gender and education discourses can add to a reading of 'new times
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Class (philosophy · Close reading · Epistemology · Feminism · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Psychic · Reading (process · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |