This book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which girls themselves participate in such circula

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and youn

Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies throug

The stereotype-laden message, delivered through clothes, music, books, and TV, is essentially a continuous plea for girls to put their energies into beauty prod

More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--ma