Girls Make Media

<p>More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and websites. <br><em>Girls Make</em> <em>Media </em>explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise of girls-only media education programs, and the creation of girls' studies.<br>This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.</p> <p>Introduction: Producing Girls <b>I. Contexts</b> 1. Delightful Employment: Girls’ Cultural Production Prior to the Late Twentieth Century <b>II. Sites</b> 2. Brought to You by Girl Power: Riot Grrrl’s Networked Media Economy 3. Girls’ Media Education: Critical Viewing or Control of the Image? <b>III. Texts </b>4. Grrrl Zines: Exploring Identitiy, Transforming Girls’ Written Culture 5. Developing the Girl’s Gaze: Female Youth and Film Production 6. Cybergurls: Female Youth, Digital Fluencies, and Web Design</p>