Girl Reader

PRE-ORDER
Currently in print, expected December 14th.
All orders, including pre-orders, will be shipped once the entire order is available.

Girls are everywhere! Silly, smart, trash, boss, crazy, deviant, cute, zany, angry, fearless,

incompetent, cruel, inhuman, subversive. There is no Girl-Girl. We are many, and we refuse codification by the dull predictability of masculine optics. Too boring!

Girl Reader is the first of its kind, presenting a range of essays, interviews, and blogs produced from within the emergent field of girl theory. It explores the technological processes of girlification–how behaviors stereotypically coded as feminine have become prerequisites for participating in life online. The authors position the Girl not as an identity or a body, but as a condition optimized for life under constant visibility, mediation, and consumption.

She is a lens, a filter, an interface. But who exactly is this Girl, and what does she reveal about contemporary culture? How did she become the dominant condition of the platform era? Can her mastery of performance become a form of subversion from within?

Wildly promiscuous across disciplinary domains, Girl Reader greets the angst-ridden amputation of masculinity with a devious smile. Let go of your fleeting agency; surrender to the Girl!

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Initiated by Mela Miekus, co-edited with Mita Medri, with contributions by Alex Quicho, Amy Ireland, Bogna Konior, Ester Freider, Heather Warren-Crow, Irma Mastenbroek, Jernej Markelj, Klaudia Orczykowska, Maya B Kronic, Maya Man, Mela Miekus & Mita Medri, Morgane Billuart & Carmen Lael Hines, Noura Tafeche, Salome Berdzenishvili, Sophie Publig & Charlotte Reuß.

… and more line-up to follow.