Overview
In today's society, more and more mass media and popular culture is being produced for, about, and by pre-adolescent and adolescent girls than ever before. The intent of this book is to help us better understand the complex relationship between girls and their culture. Informed by a broad range of theoretical perspectives and employing a variety of methodologies, the essays in this collection address the ways that mainstream culture instructs girls on how to become a woman - the ways in which the culture approves of growing up girls. Specifically, these essays examine the messages mainstream culture gives girls about romance, sexuality, life experiences, body image, gender and culture identity, and the way girls themselves negotiate these messages.
Full Product Details
Author: Sharon R. Mazzarella ,
Norma Odom Pecora ,
Sharon R. Mazzarella ,
Norma Odom Pecora
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Volume: 9
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.330kg
ISBN: 9780820440217
ISBN 10: 0820440213
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 July 2002
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
« 'Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity' is must reading for anyone who seeks to understand the complex relationship of girls to popular culture. Questions of identity are explored from the perspectives of women of diverse cultures, and in several essays, the girls themselves. What emerges from these very well-written essays are portraits of end-of-the-century femininities that disturb, haunt, and inspire hope in those ready to work with young women for social change.
Author Information
The Editors: Sharon R. Mazzarella received her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. She is Associate Professor of Television-Radio at Ithaca College where she teaches courses in youth culture, media effects, and research methods. Her research focuses on youth culture and mass media. She has published articles in Popular Music and Society, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and Communication Research. Currently, she is writing a book on media framing of Generation X. Norma Odom Pecora received her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. She is Assistant Professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University, where she teaches courses in children and the media, media theory, research methods, and women and the media. Her research focus is on gender issues and children's media. Her most recent work is The Business of Children's Entertainment.
