Seven Going on Seventeen

Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood

Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

359 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6771-9 (ISBN)

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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 essays shows that «tween» is not a simple or unified concept, nor is it limited to a certain class of girls in a few countries. This collection by an international group of authors highlights specific methodologies for working with (and studying) tween-age girls, provides challenges to the presumed innocence of girlhood, and engages in an analysis of marketing in relation to girlhood. In so doing, this book offers a reading on these three or four years in a girl’s life that suggests that this period is as fascinating as the teen years, and as generative in its implications for girlhood studies as studies of both younger and adolescent girls.

«Just when we thought everything had been written about tween girls, Mitchell and Reid-Walsh prove us wrong with a stunning collection brimming with accessible and original interpretations of early puberty, popularity, hair, girls’ magazines, Hello Kitty, and more. Not all is pink and perky in the globalized network of tween markets and discourses according to the international contributors. The chapters also offer a useful range of methodological approaches to studying and analyzing tween girls.» (Nancy Lesko, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.6.2005
Reihe/Serie	Counterpoints ; 245
	Counterpoints ; 245
	Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education ; 245
Zusatzinfo	4 ill., 3 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8204-6771-5 / 0820467715
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-6771-9 / 9780820467719
Zustand	Neuware