Seven Going on Seventeen : Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood,9780820467719

Seven Going on Seventeen : Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood

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ISBN13: 9780820467719
ISBN10: 0820467715
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary

The tween is the "new girl on the block" in girlhood studies. Although the study of tween life may have derived from a particular marketing orientation at the end of the twentieth century, it is not limited by it. On the contrary, this collection of essay

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
List of Tables
xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Theorizing Tween Culture Within Girlhood Studies
1(24)
Claudia Mitchell
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Part I Girl-method
Tween Social and Biological Reproduction: Early Puberty in Girls
25(21)
Elizabeth Seaton
From Nerd to Popular? Re-figuring School Identities and Transformation Stories
46(17)
Marnina Gonick
Video Girls: Between Changing Exploratory Behavior and Self-authorization
63(16)
Kristina Hackmann
Memory-work as a (be)Tween Research Method: The Beauty, the Splendor, the Wonder of My Hair
79(16)
Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon
Sonya Corbin Dwyer
Reading Elisabeth's Girlhood: History and Popular Culture at Work in the Subjectivity of a Tween
95(22)
Meredith Cherland
Mirrors and Windows: Re-reading South African Girlhoods as Strategies of Selfhood
117(18)
Marika Flockemann
Part II Knowing Girls
Reclaiming Girlhood: Understanding the Lives of Balkishori in Mumbai
135(13)
Jackie Kirk
``I do know who I am'': Writing, Consciousness, and Reflection
148(15)
Relebohile Moletsane
``Show Me the Panties'': Girls Play Games in the School Ground
163(10)
Deevia Bhana
Tween Worlds: Race, Gender, Age, Identity, and Violence
173(18)
Yasmin Jiwani
``Losers, Lolitas, and Lesbos'': Visualizing Girlhood
191(18)
Shannon Walsh
Part III Marketing Girlhood/Consuming Girlhood
In a Girlie World: Tweenies in Australia
209(15)
Anita Harris
Girl-Doll: Barbie as Puberty Manual
224(18)
Catherine Driscoll
Consuming Hello Kitty: Tween Icon, Sexy Cute, and the Changing Meaning of `Girlhood'
242(15)
Amy T.Y. Lai
Mediated Consumption and Fashionable Selves: Tween Girls, Fashion Magazines, and Shopping
257(21)
Farah Malik
Constructing the Digital Tween: Market Discourse and Girls' Interests
278(16)
Rebekah Willett
Imported Girl Fighters: Ripeness and Leakage in Sailor Moon
294(17)
Hoi F. Cheu
Re-imagining Girlhood: Hollywood and the Tween Girl Film Market
311(19)
Peggy Tally
The Consumption Chronicles: Tales from Suburban Canadian Tweens in the 1980s
330(17)
Natalie Coulter
List of Contributors 347(6)
Author Index 353(2)
Subject Index 355

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