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Author | : LuElla D'Amico |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498517641 |
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This collection explores the influence of girls’ series books on popular American culture and girls’ everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books’ messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.
Author | : LuElla D'Amico |
Publisher | : Children and Youth in Popular |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498517638 |
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This collection explores the influence of girls' series books on popular American culture and girls' everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books' messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.
Author | : Sherrie A. Inness |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780879727369 |
Download Nancy Drew and Company Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nine critical essays contribute to the accelerating academic investigation into girls' fiction as mechanics of gender formation in the 20th century. Among the series they discuss are Ann of Green Gables, Isabel Carleton, Linda Lane, Betsy-Tacy, and several focusing on automobiles, as well as Nancy herself. They also consider Girl Scouts and related organizations and books furthering the effort of World War II. No personal recollections are included. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Emily Hamilton-Honey |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476601518 |
Download Turning the Pages of American Girlhood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change, whether through church societies, benevolent organizations, educational institutions or political groups. By 1900, however, the socialization of series heroines had shifted to the consumer marketplace, where girls could develop personality and taste through their purchases. Both models had benefits: Religious faith and political activism gave young women moral power within their communities; consuming gave them opportunities to indulge individual desires and often to socialize in public without adult oversight. This work adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture not only by examining the beginnings of series fiction for girls and the models of womanhood it presented but also by tracing the shifting social ideologies of girlhood throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author | : Ingrid E. Castro |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498574955 |
Download Representing Agency in Popular Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.
Author | : Jennifer Harrison |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2019-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498573363 |
Download Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If there is one trend in children’s and YA literature that seems to be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster social awareness and activism, it has also come under scrutiny for its promotion of specific ideologies and its often sensationalist approach to real-world problems. In an examination of six YA dystopian texts spanning more than twenty years of development of the genre, this book explores the way in which posthumanist ideologies in particular are deployed or resisted in these texts as a means of making sense of the specific challenges which young people confront in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Ingrid E. Castro |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498597394 |
Download Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.
Author | : Patrice A. Oppliger |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498550592 |
Download Tweencom Girls Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes are portrayed in media targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds, particularly female characters, over the last twenty-five years. The book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable giants Disney Channel and Nickelodeon because of their popularity and ubiquity. It provides extensive examples and alternative interpretations of the shows’ tropes and themes, particularly for those who are unfamiliar with the genre. The first section explores common tweencom tropes, focusing on different themes that are prevalent throughout the series. The second section includes a discussion of the big picture of how tropes and themes give insight into the female characters portrayed in the popular tweencom programming, as well as advice to parents and educators.
Author | : Jean Marie Lutes |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 150172830X |
Download Front-Page Girls Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like Henrietta Stackpole, the lady-correspondent in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady. It chronicles the exploits of a neglected group of American women writers and uncovers an alternative reporter-novelist tradition that runs counter to the more familiar story of gritty realism generated in male-dominated newsrooms. Taking up actual newspaper accounts written by women, fictional portrayals of female journalists, and the work of reporters-turned-novelists such as Willa Cather and Djuna Barnes, Jean Marie Lutes finds in women's journalism a rich and complex source for modern American fiction. Female journalists, cast as both standard-bearers and scapegoats of an emergent mass culture, created fictions of themselves that far outlasted the fleeting news value of the stories they covered. Front-Page Girls revives the spectacular stories of now-forgotten newspaperwomen who were not afraid of becoming the news themselves—the defiant few who wrote for the city desks of mainstream newspapers and resisted the growing demand to fill women's columns with fashion news and household hints. It also examines, for the first time, how women's journalism shaped the path from news to novels for women writers.
Author | : Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3030717445 |
Download Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre’s radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska considers less-explored popular vampire series for girls, particularly those by P.C. and Kristin Cast and Richelle Mead, tracing the ways in which they engage in larger cultural conversations on girlhood in the Western world. Mapping the interactions between girl and vampire corporealities, delving into the unconventional tales of vampire romance and girl sexual expressions, examining the narratives of women and violence, and venturing into the uncanny vampire classroom to unmask its critique of present-day schooling, the volume offers a new perspective on the vampire genre and an engaging insight into the complexities of growing up a girl.