Feminist Girls, lesbian comrades: Performances of critical girlhood in Taiwan pop music

Abstract

During the 1990s, the popular concept of the girl-as in girl power, girl bands, girl rock, the Spice Girls, Riot Grrrl, cybergirls, and others-became increasingly prominent not only in Euro-American commercial music cultures but also outside the West. How does the category of girlhood function in non-Western contexts, and in languages other than English? Through which channels were 1990s commercial and popular movements such as the "girl power" of the Spice Girls translated into local contexts outside the West, and what effects did they produce there for local girls and women? In this chapter I tackle these questions by analyzing a non-Western manifestation of globally mobile configurations ..