Was There Ever a Time when GirlsWeren'tin Trouble

Contemporary writing about girlhood is often gloomy in tone. Girls are represented as the victims of all manner of social trends: capitalism, consumerism, body obsessions, ‘sexualisation’, pornography, etc. Or girls themselves come under attack for bad behaviour, as ‘ladettes’ or ‘living dolls’. But in some parts of the world at least, young women enjoy more freedom and opportunities than ever before. Looking back over her own lifetime, the author argues that feminism has been a potent force for betterment—a belief that things can and do sometimes improve serves to sustain political projects

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