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"Only a generation or two ago, childhood in the United States was understood to be a unique and vulnerable stage of development; a time for play and protection from adult preoccupations and responsibilities. In recent decades however, we appear to have jettisoned these norms, an…
Images of teenage girls in poodle skirts dominated American popular culture in the 1950's. But as Kelly Schrum shows, teenage girls were swooning over pop idols and using their allowances to buy the latest fashions well beforehand. After World War I, a teenage identity arose in …
Images of teenage girls in poodle skirts dominated American popular culture in the 1950's. But as Kelly Schrum shows, teenage girls were swooning over pop idols and using their allowances to buy the latest fashions well beforehand. After World War I, a teenage identity arose in …
Mediated Girlhoods, is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls' media representations, girls' media consumption, and girls' media production. In an attempt to push research on girls' media cult…
This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls' sexuality in the media. The volume includes a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences, addressing how girls and other…
This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls' sexuality in the media. The volume includes a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences, addressing how girls and other…
"Challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label 'tweens' and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of 'capitalism's most valuable customers.' Tweening the …
"Challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label 'tweens' and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of 'capitalism's most valuable customers.' Tweening the …
"Challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label 'tweens' and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of 'capitalism's most valuable customers.' Tweening the …
Momentum and legitimacy -- Reconstructing classrooms, reconstructing relationships -- Experiments in sex education -- Sexed bodies and the facts of life -- Gender and heterosexual adjustment -- Sexuality education beyond the classroom
When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance. But the author's investigation of the classrooms of the 1940s and 1950s offers numerous insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. From rura…
When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance. But Susan K. Freeman's investigation of the classrooms of the 1940s and 1950s offers numerous insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. Fro…