Alison Winch

is a part-time lecturer at Middlesex University. Her book Girlfriends: Postfeminist Sisterhood is forthcoming (Palgrave 2013).

Articles

The girlfriend gaze

Women’s friendship and intimacy circles are increasingly taking on the function of mutual self-policing, writes Alison Winch. In a relentlessly visual landscape, the feminine ideal is the girl and the girled body is an asset.