Why Is Everyone Regressing to ‘Girlhood’? 🎀✨

Описание: Why are we seeing a rise in the infantilisation of women online and is it linked to possible WW3?
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Everywhere you look online there’s a huge rise of ‘girlhood’ content- from girl math to girl dinner- it’s become a massive trend. In this video, I explore our need to retreat into girlhood at a time when ‘womanhood’ can seem impossible to navigate. And no, I won’t ever tell you to stop wearing bows…

Timestamps:
00:00 Why does girlhood feel safer than womanhood right now?
05:01 What is the 'girlhood' trend?
09:23 The history of girlhood as an idea
14:11 Nostalgia & regression in uncertain times: how economic anxiety and feminine aesthetics relate
19:40 Is queer girlhood reclaiming what was lost?
24:10 The problem with infantilisation from a disability perspective
29:39 The commodification and commercialisation of girlhood
33:24 Does the algorithm reward femininity?
34:19 Why is femininity political?
35:51 Is girlhood always bad?

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Sources and further reading:

Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood. Vintage, 1962.
Mitchell, Claudia & Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline. Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2008.
Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Times Books, 1994.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. University of California Press, 2003.
Steele, Valerie. Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now. Yale University Press, 1997.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.
Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. Routledge, 1993.
McRobbie, Angela. The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. Sage, 2009.
Gill, Rosalind. “Postfeminist Media Culture.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 10, no. 2 (2007): 147–166.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Staring: How We Look. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Kafer, Alison. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press, 2013.
McRobbie, Angela. The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. Sage, 2009.
Gill, Rosalind. “Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 10, no. 2 (2007): 147–166.
Huyssen, Andreas. Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Stanford University Press, 2003.

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