Published in 2013
174 pages
Martine Delvaux was born in 1968. Novelist and essayist, she has so far published three acclaimed novels with Héliotrope: When is happiness? (2007), Bitter Rose (2009) and The stuntmen of love are not entitled to dubbing (2012).
What is this book about?
Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls.
On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller Girls to Barbie dolls, Playboy bunnies to Pussy Riot, Martine Delvaux produces a provocative analysis of the many gendered assumptions that underlie modern culture. Delvaux draws on the works of Barthes, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Woolf, and more to argue that serial girls are not just the ubiquitous symbols of patriarchal domination but also offer the possibility of liberation.
