Analyses of young feminine identities have often focused on consumption, career and intimate life as separate spheres. In this article, we bring these together to nuance the concept of the ‘top girl’. Drawing on a qualitative study of young Norwegian ‘top girls’’ alcohol consumption and lifestyles we explore how ‘appropriate’ feminine identities are configured in the present and in the future. We analyse how the egalitarian context shapes the contours of the ‘top girl’ and find that ‘progressive’ values are central to our participants’ present lifestyles. However, these progressive lifestyles are expected to collide with the ‘square’ lives the participants see awaiting them as middle-class adult women and mothers. We argue that as the participants grow older, the range of legitimate, middle-class femininities is narrowing. Further, we suggest that in an egalitarian context such as the Norwegian context the ‘top girl’ lacks an attractive, adult equivalent.

对年轻女性身份的分析通常侧重于消费，职业和私密生活这两个单独的领域。在本文中，我们将这些结合在一起以细化“顶尖女孩”的概念。通过对年轻的挪威“顶级女孩”饮酒和生活方式的定性研究，我们探索了在现在和将来如何配置“适当的”女性身份。我们分析了平等主义的背景如何塑造“高级女孩”的轮廓，并发现“进步的”价值观是我们参与者当前生活方式的核心。但是，这些进步的生活方式预计会与参与者认为是中产阶级成年女性和母亲的“方形”生活发生冲突。我们认为，随着参与者的年龄增长，合法的中产阶级女性气质的范围正在缩小。进一步，