Girl culture
Subtitle: an encyclopedia
By: edited by Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Contributors: Mitchell, Claudia; Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline, 1951-
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9780313339080; 9780313339097; 9780313339103
Subjects: Girls -- United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias; Teenage girls -- United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [627]-640) and index
Table of contents: title: List of entries; title: Guide to related topics; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Part 1. Studying girl culture : a readers' guide; title: Introduction to part 1; title: What does it mean to be a girl in the twenty-first century? Exploring some contemporary dilemmas of femininity and girlhood in the west; title: How to study girl culture; title: Doll culture; title: Barbie culture; title: Disney and girlhood; title: Romance in teen publications; title: Style and girl culture; title: Ballet and girl culture; title: Girls' literacy practices; title: Girls, digital culture, and new media; title: Girl gamers; title: Representations of girls and young women in film as an entry point to studying girl culture; title: Whose girlhood? Race, representation, and girlhood; title: Girlhood in the time of AIDS: popular images, representations, and their effects; title: Part 2. Girl culture A to Z; title: Selected bibliography; title: About the editors; title: About the contributors; title: Index