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7%OFFIlana Nash - American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture - 9780253218025 - V9780253218025
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American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture

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Description for American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture Paperback. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, this book shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. It explores the intersecting histories of adolescence, and popular culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.

Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation.

Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. While young women have received some positive lessons from these cultural icons, the overwhelming message ... Read more

As sweet as a cherry lollipop and as tangy as a Sweetart, this book is an entertaining yet thoughtful exploration of the image of the American girl.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253218025
SKU
V9780253218025
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ilana Nash
Ilana Nash is Assistant Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Reviews for American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture
Nash's book is a fascinating and insightful look at the figure of the teenage American girl through the guise of popular culture. . . .Compelling and and persuasive, American Sweethearts goes a long way in showing where our mid-century views of teenage women came from, and, sadly, how those stereotypes still pervade our popular culture to this day.
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