Journal article
The Girling of America: Critical Reflections on Gender and Popular Communication
Popular communication, Vol.1(1), pp.23-31
01/01/2003
DOI: 10.1207/S15405710PC0101_4
Abstract
The upsurge in media vehicles aimed at adolescent girl audiences has given birth to a "new breed" of teenage heroine, one whose embodiment of nontraditional gender roles has drawn widespread acclaim. This essay offers critical perspectives on this new genre, situating the figures of the new girl heroines in their sociopolitical contexts and examining them through the lens of critical feminist theory. The essay concludes that the oppositional gestures offered by these new girl heroes are swiftly recuperated within larger, conventional discourses of race, class, beauty, desire, and embodiment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Girling of America: Critical Reflections on Gender and Popular Communication
- Creators
- Meenakshi Gigi Durham
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Popular communication, Vol.1(1), pp.23-31
- DOI
- 10.1207/S15405710PC0101_4
- ISSN
- 1540-5702
- eISSN
- 1540-5710
- Publisher
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2003
- Academic Unit
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; English; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984002410302771
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