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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alison Piepmeier |
| ISBN: | 9780814767511 0814767516 9780814767528 0814767524 |
| OCLC Number: | 326484782 |
| Description: | xiv, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / by Andi Zeisler -- Introduction -- "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 -- Why zines matter : materiality and the creation of embodied community -- Playing dress-up, playing pin-up, playing mom : zines and gender -- "We are not all one" : intersectional identities in grrrl zines -- Doing third wave feminism : zines as a public pedagogy of hope -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Where to find zines. |
| Responsibility: | Alison Piepmeier ; foreword by Andi Zeisler. |
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"Piepmeiers careful study of the zine movement in girl culture is a powerful and convincing articulation of the ways womens and girls activism has developed, and the creative forms it has taken. Leslie Heywood, editor of The Womens Movement Today "Before you could Tweet your every thought to the world, young women cut, pasted, Xeroxed, and traded their own handmade magazines through the mail. In fact, the gorgeously glossy mag you're holding in your hands right now started off as a 'zine. GIRL ZINES analyzes the beginning of the movement and its 'revolution grrrl style' roots, as well as the way 'zinesters used the medium to explore race, sexuality, and identity." BUST Magazine, Aug/Sept 2009 Read more...
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