This fascinating book centres on a paradox in visual culture: why do contemporary messages of female empowerment sit alongside a proliferation of images of childlike femininities? Examining magazine fashion spreads over 25 years, Picturing the Woman-Child offers a compelling analysis of four figures and the ways they are understood.

Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK

Morna Laing's nuanced and layered analysis of childlike femininities in fashion imagery is eye-opening. She weaves together a compelling theoretical, historical, and visual analysis, offering the reader a new perspective on and a deeper understanding of these pervasive cultural depictions of women.

Jennifer Farley Gordon, independent researcher, writer and curator, USA

Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze presents a considered look at the various tropes associated with the woman-child within European fashion media of the 1990s through 2015, employing visual analysis, reception studies, and dense contextualization within critical and feminist theory to demonstrate how these images, while certainly serving the capitalist aims of the fashion media, offer women viewers multifarious ways, both feminist and not, of articulating the self.

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