Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Currie, Dawn, 1948-

Girl talk : adolescent magazines and their readers / Dawn H. Currie. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999. - x, 362 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 'Girls Doing Girl Things': A Study of Girls Becoming Women ; Just Looking: Exploring Our Point of Entry ; Materialist Feminism: The Ideology of Women's Magazines ; Materialism Revisited: Doing 'Girl Talk' ; From Text as Specimen to Text as Process: Reading as Everyday Practice ; Teenzine Reading: The Social Life of Texts ; From Pleasure to Knowledge: The Power of the Text ; Doing and Undoing: The Everyday Experience of Subject-ivity ; Calling Cultural Constructions into Question ; Conclusion: Towards a Materialist Analysis of Texts: Reading Sociologically. App. A: Description of Participants. App. B 'Counting' Meaning. App. C Advertisements Used in 'Girl Talk.'

ISBN: 0802044158 (bound) 0802082173 (pbk.)

LCCN: 00550914

Nat. Bib. No.: C98-932362-5

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Youths' periodicals--United States.
Women's periodicals, American.
Teenage girls--Books and reading.
Sex role in mass media.

LC Class. No.: PN4878 / .C87 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 051/.0835/2