“The Complexities of Girlhood: Exploring the Intersection of Capitalism and Marxist Theory in the Contemporary ‘Girl’ Aesthetic”

The essay should explore the links between girlhood, capitalism, and marxist theory, while also touching on the contemporary “girl’ aesthetic seen on social media (girl dinner, bedrot, girlblogging) i have started some of the essay and need it to be finished off: “Within the landscape of contemporary media, the lonesome girl navigates a world which both allures and confounds her, her vulnerability laid bare for all to see. The girl who becomes so in touch with her femininity begins to satirise it, deconstructing and putting it back together again and again.​ Amalgamating from photo boards of waif cigarette-bodied dreamgirls, heart-shaped cocaine, a Miu Miu skirt dissociated from the body that holds it; with the white-tinted coyness that segregates it. This becomes the founding idea of the modern “girl”–not woman nor child, but an individual caught between the two, exploring the complexities of identity, desire, and social expectations. The aesthetic becomes the trend becomes the standard, and the resistance then forms. This new dogma urges a split from the now cliché industrial “girl” to the “organic girl” which becomes a more esoteric and desirable form. It occupies a still-virgin and niche space, a very time specific goal, under the pretence of the conservation of “natural values”. Each new sub-delegation splitting the atoms of girlhood apart to find the raw, quivering substance of it all. The world has had its fascination with the unwed, virgin girl for millennia–the phallogocentric view that they are to be seen and never for them to see. Girlhood itself has always been its own separate club from society, disciplines studying the phenomena originating from a subcategory of feminist studies which emerged in the early 20th century.” the rest of the instructions are listed in the file named L4_assignment_2_The_Imaginary_Museum_23-24_4(1).pdf