Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Girlhood -- Pt. 1. Becoming a Girl -- 1. The Girl of the Period -- 2. Feminine Adolescence -- 3. Puberty -- Pt. 2. Becoming a Woman -- 4. Daughters: Theories of Girlhood -- 5. Sex and the Single Girl: Studies in Girlhood -- 6. Becoming Bride: Girls and Cultural Studies -- Pt. 3. Girls and Cultural Production -- 7. Distraction: Girls and Mass Culture -- 8. In Visible Bodies -- 9. The Girl Market and Girl Culture -- Conclusion: The Girl of the Century
Summary
Driscoll argues that both 'girls' and 'culture' as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture
