Red Chidgey, Lecturer in Gender and Media, has been interviewed for an article on girl power and fashion in the prestigious German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. The article is online here:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/stil/mode-design/feminismus-in-pink-das-mode-label-me-and-you-14182727.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2
Here, Dr Chidgey argues in that ‘girl power’ operates as a form of branding in postfeminist culture and that we should not forget its radical roots in the youth subculture Riot Grrrl.
For more on Riot Grrrl, the British Library has a useful explanatory page at: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/counterculture/doityourself/riotgrrrl/riotgrrrl.html
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