Serial Girls: From Barbie to Pussy Riot

"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."--;Intro; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: I Is a Girl; 1 Serial Girls; 2 Young-Girl; 3 Marginals; 4 From the Latin Pupa: Poupee, Doll, Little Girl; 5 Still Lifes; 6 Fetish-Grrrls; 7 DIM Girls; 8 Tableaux Vivants; 9 Like a Girl Takes Off Her Dress; 10 Showgirls; 11 Girl Tales; 12 One for All, All for One; 13 Mirror, Mirror; 14 Bunnies; 15 Blonds; 16 Girls 1; 17 Girls 2; 18 Street Girls; Conclusion: Firefly Girls; Notes; Backcover.