From the dance hall to Facebook
Subtitle: teen girls, mass media, and moral panic in the United States, 1905-2010
By: Shayla Thiel-Stern
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst and Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781625340917; 9781625340900
Subjects: Teenage girls; Geschlechterrolle; Weibliche Jugend; Massenmedien; Journalism; Mass media and teenage girls; Social conditions; Objectivity; Sex role in mass media
Description: "In From the Dance Hall to Facebook, Shayla Thiel-Stern takes a close look at several historical snapshots, including working-class girls in dance halls of the early 1900s; girls' track and field teams in the 1920s to 1940s; Elvis Presley fans in the mid-1950s; punk rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and girls using the Internet in the early twenty-first century. In each case, issues of gender, socioeconomic status, and race are explored within their historical context. The book argues that by marginalizing and stereotyping teen girls over the past century, mass media have perpetuated a pattern of gendered crisis that ultimately limits the cultural and political power of the young women it covers."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Media, panic, and teen girls in recreational space; title: The dance hall evil, 1905-1928; title: The rise and fall of girls' track and field, 1920-1940; title: The Elvis problem, 1956-1959; title: Punk rock and a crisis of femininity, 1976-1986; title: Policing teen girls online, 2004-2010; title: Afterword.