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.'
0802044158 (bound) 0802082173 (pbk.)
00550914
C98-932362-5
Youths' periodicals--United States. Women's periodicals, American. Teenage girls--Books and reading. Sex role in mass media.