SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Girl Power, Panopticon, Takers
12 Mar 2014
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Week 3: wednesday january 22 power & representation ii: girl/grrl/hoods. Harris, can-do girl vs at-risk girl (ck) Scott-dixon, girls need ezines: young feminists get on-line (ck) Ayuso, i look fat in this! (ck) Quiz questions: a key concept for harris is grrlpower. Girlpower as a provocative mic of youth, vitality, sexuality and self determination. Deemed to be at risk are cut off from imagined majority of successful girls and their problems tend to become. A new right vocabulary which celebrates female success in the marketplace, which punishes failure as individual weakness and which boldly advocates competitive individualism as the mark of modern young womanhood (mcrobbie qtd in harris [115]) Cultural shift from an emphasis on youth to a concern for, and over girls as new subjects of regulation and governance (harris). Growing up right has always been a highly managed process for girls in order for particular forms of gender relations to be maintained. [harris, 112]
