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Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield

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jemmers's review against another edition

4.0

sends me back to my adolescent egg days circa 2006

This was a tough book, for a photo essay one. So many girls my age (19 at the time) or far younger struggling with body image, sexuality, abuse... one of the ones that pushed me towards wanting to be a photographer, though!

andreiaoh's review against another edition

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informative fast-paced

5.0

really really insightful piece of work. greenfield's photography is wonderful (as usual!) and the book is constructed very thoughtfully and i can see how the narrative flows between the pictures and the interview passages.

anneliesepeerbolte's review

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4.0

Beautiful photography, and some really fucked up stories. I think that, at time time especially, this was probably super eye opening for many. I think as someone who grew up as a woman, reading this was incredibly hard, and I honestly had to skip a lot of the bios towards the end. I think that Greenfield really hits on the obsessive body culture that women have and had especially in the 2000s, and how that plays into sexual exhibitionism. Truly heartbreaking and really wild.

moon711's review

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medium-paced

5.0

Photography book always gonna be a five for me

eraofkara's review

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4.0

This collection of photography and essays/articles about girls and young women is fantastic but also incredibly depressing. I can't imagine how hard it would be to raise a young girl right now.

maddiekl's review

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

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rehemamalaika's review

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4.0

Love this book sm. Made me feel less alone about having insecurities regarding my body. Knowing that I'm not the only one makes me feel less alone. Knowing that there are companies, marketing teams and many other people who find ways to make me despise myself is actually comforting. In the sense that the problem doesn't lie in me. My body is fine and others want ME to hate it for THEIR own benefit. Therefore, I don't have to listen to them. The problem is beyond me that I, in fact, have nothing to do with it. This book also opened my eyes to eating disorders which is very enriching since I got to hear from real people's experiences. I'll end with Ashlee's quote saying "The way you are is the way you're meant to be". :)