A01=Valerie Walkerdine
Author_Valerie Walkerdine
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Product details
- ISBN 9780860915171
- Weight: 379g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 1990
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What are little girls made of? In this book, Valerie Walkerdine examines the idea that femininity and masculinity are fictions, imbued with fantasy but lived as fact. It is often assumed that girls passively take on roles and stereotypes. Schoolgirl Fictions challenges that assumption, and looks at the many ways in which girls' identities are created, how these are lived, and how girls and women struggle to change the plot - and to invent alternative endings.
In a series of images and interventions, the author explores the creation of femininity in schools, at home, and in such forms of popular culture as magazines and television programmes. Walkerdine analyses her own struggle with such fictional personae as 'daddy's girl', and the making of her identities as schoolgirl, teacher and academic. Combining techniques of autobiography, psychoanalysis and cultural criticism, Schoolgirl Fictions provides an imaginative and transgressive account of female subjectivity.
In a series of images and interventions, the author explores the creation of femininity in schools, at home, and in such forms of popular culture as magazines and television programmes. Walkerdine analyses her own struggle with such fictional personae as 'daddy's girl', and the making of her identities as schoolgirl, teacher and academic. Combining techniques of autobiography, psychoanalysis and cultural criticism, Schoolgirl Fictions provides an imaginative and transgressive account of female subjectivity.
Valerie Walkerdine is Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham Polytechnic. Her previous books include Democracy in the Kitchen, Counting Girls Out and Changing the Subject.
