A big congratulations to Elaine O'Quinn! Her manuscript entitled "Girl Culture: Decoding, Understanding and Resisting Image and Message" has been accepted for the inaugural publication of Blackwell's "The International Encyclopedia for Media Literacy." The essay aims to help readers understand more completely how girls use the many forms of literacy available to them to help define their world by understanding a history of their literacy habits in general. I explore how girls have moved literacy around in the world of play, social contexts, academics, personal, and public representations. Developmental, psychological, philosophical, and anthropological insights and the impact they have had on perceptions of youth and girls in particular are also considered. Finally, the influence of cultural studies as relates to girls and the subcultures they may inhabit and how they move against the grain to resist, respond, act and sometimes rebel through their use of literacy is discussed as an important way of understanding their growth. As daughters, sisters, friends, nieces, and students, girls continue as they always have to explore and perform their literacy in a variety of ways.
