Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia (The American Family)
Miriam Forman-Brunell
In this comprehensive, readable, two volume encyclopedia, experts from a variety of disciplines contribute pieces to the puzzle of what it means?€”and what it has meant over the last 400 years?€”to be a girl in America. The portrait that emerges reveals deep differences in girls' experiences depending on socioeconomic context, religious and ethnic traditions, family life, schools, institutions, and the messages of consumer and popular culture.Girls have been commodified, idealized, trivialized, eroticized, and shaped by the powerful forces of popular culture, from Little Women to Barbie. Yet girls are also powerful co-creators of the culture that shapes them, often cleverly subverting it to their own purposes. From Pocahantas to punk rockers, girls have been an integral, if overlooked and undervalued, part of American culture.
年:
2001
出版社:
ABC-CLIO
语言:
english
页:
819
ISBN 10:
1576072061
ISBN 13:
9781576072066
系列:
The American Family
文件:
PDF, 7.21 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2001