Journal article
Dilemmas of Desire: Representations of Adolescent Sexuality in Two Teen Magazines
Youth & society, Vol.29(3), pp.369-389
03/1998
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X98029003005
Abstract
This article interrogates gendered ideologies of sexuality in two teen magazines, Seventeen and YM. The method of analysis involves a close reading of written texts and images relating to sex or sexuality. The patterns that emerge from this analysis reveal tensions that center around sexual decision making versus sexual signification via costuming, cosmetics, and body image. The analysis uncovers a representation of sexuality that parallels sociocultural norms of contradiction and antilogy in the characterization of girls' desire.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Dilemmas of Desire: Representations of Adolescent Sexuality in Two Teen Magazines
- Creators
- MEENAKSHI GIGI DURHAM - University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Youth & society, Vol.29(3), pp.369-389
- DOI
- 10.1177/0044118X98029003005
- ISSN
- 0044-118X
- eISSN
- 1552-8499
- Publisher
- SAGE Periodicals Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1998
- Academic Unit
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; English; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984002326002771
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