Girl Zines

Making Media, Doing Feminism

By: Alison Piepmeier, Andi Zeisler (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 18 December 2009

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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.

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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

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