ABSTRACT
Foucault argues that a text ‘is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network’ (1969, 23). This concept of a network of meaning, its sites of authority and reproduction, and the possibility of examining a range of statements and narratives as the ‘texts’ which are its ‘nodes’ provides a viable theoretical framework for this study in its consideration of ‘achieving girl’ discourses across a range of sites. However, Foucault presents particular issues for feminist analysis, and these should be acknowledged before a more detailed account of the archaeological framework is given.
