Skip to content
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS $35+
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL US ORDERS $35+
Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism

Availability:
in stock, ready to be shipped
$30.00 - $30.00
$30.00
$41.99
$41.99 - $41.99
$41.99
The first book-length exploration of the quirky feminist booklets

With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded with handwriting, collage art, stickers, and glitter. Though they all reflect the personal style of the creators, they are also sites for constructing narratives, identities, and communities.

Girl Zines is the first book-length exploration of this exciting movement. Alison Piepmeier argues that these quirky, personalized booklets are tangible examples of the ways that girls and women ‘do’ feminism today. The idiosyncratic, surprising, and savvy arguments and issues showcased in the forty-six images reproduced in the book provide a complex window into feminism’s future, where zinesters persistently and stubbornly carve out new spaces for what it means to be a revolutionary and a girl. Girl Zines takes zines seriously, asking what they can tell us about the inner lives of girls and women over the last twenty years.

ISBN-13: 9780814767528

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: New York University Press

Publication Date: 11-18-2009

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Alison Piepmeier was Director and Professor of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She was the author of Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, among other books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Andi Zeisler
Introduction
1 “If I Didn’t Write These Things No One Else Would Either”: The Feminist Legacy of Grrrl Zines and the Origins of the Third Wave
2 Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community
3 Playing Dress-Up, Playing Pin-Up, Playing Mom: Zines and Gender
4 “We Are Not All One”: Intersectional Identities in Grrrl Zines
5 Doing Third Wave Feminism: Zines as a Public Pedagogy of Hope
Conclusion
Appendix: Where to Find Zines
Notes Index
About the Author