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>