Girl Talk : : Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers / / Dawn H. Currie.
Current feminist debate finds itself at an impasse concerning the significance of magazines for adolescent girls- are they full of oppressive prescriptions of femininity, or celebrations of female-centred pleasure and resistance against the patriarchy? The question has been examined largely by middl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: ‘Girls Doing Girl Things’: A Study of Girls Becoming Women
- 1. Just Looking: Exploring Our Point of Entry
- 2. Materialist Feminism: The Ideology of Women’s Magazines
- 3. Materialism Revisited: Doing Girl Talk
- 4. From Text as Specimen to Text as Process: Reading as Everyday Practice
- 5. Teenzine Reading: The Social Life of Texts
- 6. From Pleasure to Knowledge: The Power of the Text
- 7. Doing and Undoing: The Everyday Experience of Subject-ivity
- 8. Calling Cultural Constructions into Question
- Conclusion: Towards a Materialist Analysis of Texts: Reading Sociologically
- Appendix A: Description of Participants
- Appendix B: ‘Counting’ Meaning
- Appendix C: Advertisements Used in Girl Talk
- Notes
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index