Gurl Scenes and Grrrl Zines

The Regulation and Resistance of Girls in Late Modernity

Bibliographic Data

ID3945472
AuthorsAnita Harris (0000-0003-0865-8280, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume75
Issue1
Pages38-56
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400116
OpenAlexW2019267776
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited17

This article explores the images of 'girlpower' and 'girls as risk-takers' as important sources for the analysis and management of young women's experiences and behaviours under late modernity. It then focuses on what is known as the grrrlzine culture as a site where these contemporary images of girlhood are challenged and deconstructed. It is argued that grrrlzines create a community for young women within which they can participate in debates about the meaning of girlhood under late modernity. Grrrlzines offer spaces for young women to discuss and organize among themselves, and in particular to wrestle with and parody contemporary images of girlhood. In doing so, they help to complicate and advance feminist youth studies approaches to the role of the public/private split in girls' cultures, places for youth resistance and the 'problem' of girls' silence and invisibility in the context of late modernity. The article examines the ways grrrlzines appear to be complicit in the silencing of young women by insisting on expression only within liminal spaces. However, it is suggested that this constitutes an important attempt on the part of some young women to evade new regulatory regimes that operate primarily by inciting them to speak

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Feminism · Human sexuality · Invisibility · Late modernity · Liminality · Meaning (existential) · Modernity · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Silence · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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