As a final project for an English "Visual Rhetoric" course, I created a video essay examining Nancy Drew through the theorising work of Nicholas Mirzoeff: The Right to Look. The essay is meant to explore Nancy Drew as a feminist heroine, and how she operates as a counter-visual to the Archetypal Male Detective and to ideals of "femininity" young girls were taught to emulate at the time. I contend that while Nancy herself asserts a "right to look,” so do the young girls reading her novels. Although the books are cheap and the plot lines repetitive and cookie cutter, through oppositional looking young girls were able to assign value to books deemed “value-less” and see in her the feminist role model they had been searching for.