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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Sadie Bell

'GIRLS' Asks You to Rethink What's Beautiful—and Complex—About Girlhood

The cover of the photo book girls collaged over stills from the interior of the book of different young girls like dakota fanning and a still from the virgin suicides .

For many, “girlhood” isn’t a finite period.

The new art book GIRLS: On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between recognizes just that, proving how much what we consume, observe, and experience in our youth can shape us—how playground rites of passage, and iconography like bows and barrettes, or dollhouses and fairy wands, can inform our memories and carry weight and connotations more complex than misogyny may lead us to believe.

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