ABSTRACT
In researching girlhood, I see that the effort of asking critical questions is at times frightening and almost impossible and may not always produce the desired results. Yet those questions need to be asked, if not at the moment, later, not lost to social mandates that eclipse experience in strict ideology or dominant notions of self. What are the socially inscribed controls on the body? How are these boundaries personally negotiated? How do we play a role in their enforcement and redefinition? These notebooks and visual narratives are passages, moments cracked open by the senses, perhaps seen as naive and analytical acts of memory and imagination.
