Girls Make Media

From magazines and films, to recordings and websites, more girls are producing media today than at any other point in history. "Girls Make Media" is a groundbreaking exploration of how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical, social, cultural and political agency. Analyzing Riot Grrrl - a 1990s feminist youth movement stemmed from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory - and the girl power movement it inspired, Mary Celeste Kearney also looks at the rise of girls-only media education and the creation of girls' studies courses. This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.