This may be old news to some of you who often view my Flickr but for those of you who don’t, have missed this or simply just do not know… I have been featured in a book. Yes, that’s right… I have been featured in the book; Next Wave Cultures by Anita Harris.

Featured in Next Wave Cultures by Anita Harris

This new collection edited by Anita Harris provides an interdisciplinary examination of young women’s multilayered lives. Contributors from fields such as education, gender and cultural studies, sociology, psychology and politics - as well as young women themselves - wrestle with both subculture theory and feminism as they attempt to understand contemporary strategies for connection and social action. They also offer insights into an understanding of how today’s young women conceive of their relationships and networks with other young women in the absence of older style feminist frameworks; and what their experiences can offer for the development of more relevant explanations of youths’ social and political identities and cultures. The book is organised into four sections and the chapters that make up these sections explore the ways in which girls’ various cultural pursuits are tied to identity formation and also relate to issues of class, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, ability, and, of course, gender. —Amazon’s product description

I’m featured in chapter six of the book; “Femininites as Commodities: Cam Girl Culture”. I was featured on page 135 under, “Cam Girls, or ‘The Girl Next Door’: Young Teenage, 13-25″ and it was written by Amy Shields Dobson who contacted me some years ago for permission to use a couple of my Flickr photos.