Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art

Catherine Grant is a visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Lori Waxman is an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Catherine Grant (Ph.D.) is a music educator and researcher at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), with research interests in music and social justice, higher music education and cultural sustainability. Grant is author of the monograph Music Endangerment (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-editor of the award-winning volume Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures (Oxford University Press, 2016). She is recent recipient of an Endeavour Australia Research Fellowship, British Museum Endangered Material Knowledge Program grant and an Australian Future Justice medal for her research, advocacy and activism on cultural sustainability. Grant’s research has featured in media including the Boston Globe, The Australian, The Conversation and radio stations in Australia, Cambodia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Contact: Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, PO Box 3428, South Brisbane, Turrbal and Yuggera Country, QLD, 4101, Australia.

""Girls! Girls! Girls!" is the missing link in the new feminist art history/criticism. It engages with that crucial and ambiguous period where children become women. In a way, one might say that girlhood lies at the root of Freud's question 'what do women want?, ' and at the same time that it mystifies this originary moment in women's history. These texts hit the crucial questions in girl representation, running the whole gamut from charm to hysteria to murder." --Linda Nochlin, New York University