Research Catalog

Title

Serial girls : from Barbie to Pussy Riot / Martine Delvaux ; translated by Susanne De Lotbinière-Harwood.

Author

Delvaux, Martine, 1968-

Publication

Toronto : Between the Lines, 2016.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Lotbinière-Harwood, Susanne de

Description

vii, 174 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls. On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect synch-as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller Girls to Barbie dolls, Playboy bunnies to Pussy Riot, Martine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of the many gendered assumptions that underlie modern culture. Inspired by Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft, Delvaux draws on the works of Barthes, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Woolf, and more to argue that serial girls are not just the ubiquitous symbols of patriarchal domination but also offer the possibility of liberation."--

Uniform Title

Filles en série. English

Alternative Title

Filles en série.

Subject

• Women > Social conditions
• Women in literature
• Women in motion pictures
• Girls in popular culture
• Body image in women
• Women in popular culture
• Women > Social conditions
• Alternative Press Collection

Note

• Translation of: Les filles en série, des Barbies aux Pussy Riot.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174).

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : I Is a Girl -- Serial Girls -- Young-Girl -- Marginals -- From the Latin Pupa : Poupée, Doll, Little Girl -- Still Lifes -- Fetish-Grrrls -- DIM Girls -- Tableaux Vivants -- Like a Girl Takes Off Her Dress -- Showgirls -- Girl Tales -- One for All, All for One -- Mirror, Mirror -- Bunnies -- Blonds -- Girls 1 -- Girls 2 -- Street Girls -- Conclusion : Firefly Girls.

ISBN

• 9781771131858
• 1771131853
• 177113187X
• 9781771131872
• 1771131861
• 9781771131865
• 9781771131865 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781771131872 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 953630419
• SCSB-10847405

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library