By Claudia Mitchell,Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

ISBN-10: 0313339082

ISBN-13: 9780313339080

Never prior to has rather a lot pop culture been produced approximately what it capability to be a lady in cutting-edge society. From the 1st visual appeal of Nancy Drew in 1930, to Seventeen journal in 1944 to the emergence of Bratz dolls in 2001, lady tradition has been more and more associated with pop culture and an escalating of commodities directed in the direction of women of every age. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh examine the more and more complicated relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of yankee tween and teenage women who're starting to be up swifter at the present time than ever before.

From pre-school to highschool and past, Girl Culture tackles a variety of hot-button matters, together with the new barrage of ads aimed at very younger ladies emphasizing sexuality and severe thinness. not anything is off-limits: physique picture, peer strain, cliques, gangs, and cosmetic surgery are one of the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. finished in its assurance of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, model, literature, movie, in-group rituals and hot-button concerns that shape―and are formed by―girl tradition, this two-volume source deals a wealth of data to assist scholars, educators, and readers larger comprehend the continued interaction among women and mainstream culture.

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