Valerie WalkerdineRezensionen

[based on sketchy notes from 2005]

Walkerdine did a lot of fieldwork recording young schoolgirls. However, I do not feel she is using her recordings to full effect here. She frequently says, "I want to argue," "I want to explore," but she ends up merely asserting her opinion or at best appealing to psychoanalytic writing. If she marshalled her data, she could probably make a much more convincing case. I'm all for complicating things which have been oversimplified, but I was very disappointed with the route Walkerdine took in this book.