METHS300 Girl/Grrl Culture

What does it mean to be a young woman today? Girls' Studies, an emerging field of feminist studies, empowers us to explore this question thoroughly. Utilizing an interdisciplinary feminist lens we will explore the constructions and meanings of 'girlhood' in contemporary American culture, and will focus on the following themes: identity formation, diversity, agency, resistance, and the creation of grrl culture. Readings include:Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century American Girls' Culture; Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism; All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity.

Methods Seminars are in-depth, interdisciplinary investigations of a particular problem or theme. These seminars focus on ways of knowing the world characteristic of the disciplines represented in the seminar, such that the forms or methods of investigation are as important as the subject matter itself.