This book offers fascinating insights into the material and affective dimensions of the 1960s Model Girl. It is a richly illustrated, textured examination of this central sixties figure, drawing on a wide range of material resources to capture the appeal of the model as dream, profession and aspiration'. * Joanne Entwistle, Kings College London, UK * This thoughtful examination provides a crucial genealogy of that eras Model Girl, a figure central to our understanding of the complex period that was the Sixties. McDowells consideration of the modelsubject and object, original and copy, material and abstract, ordinary and extraordinary, person and processallows for a keen analysis of these girls self/representational practices, smartly exposing the ambivalences and interstices of model/girl fashion narratives in all their iconic modes. * Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, USA *
