Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture

Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney

Peter Lang, February 2011





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Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture is the 

first anthology devoted specifically to scholarship on girls' media 

culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes analyses of 

girls' media representations, media consumption, and media 

production. The book responds to criticisms of previous research in 

the field by including studies of girls who are not white, 

middle-class, heterosexual, or Western, while also including 

historical research. Approaching girlhood, media, and methodology 

broadly, Mediated Girlhoods contains studies of previously unexplored 

topics, such as feminist themes in teen magazines, girl-made memory 

books, country girlhoods, girls' self-branding on YouTube, and the 

surveillance of girls via new media technologies. The volume serves 

as a companion to Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in 

Popular Media and Culture, edited by Annette Wannamaker, and is part 

of Sharon R. Mazzarella's 

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Youth series for Peter Lang.





"This is a wonderfully rich collection of work that moves girls' 

media studies way beyond the conventional and into important 

territory of production and critical engagement, innovative 

methodologies and new voices. Mediated Girlhoods takes us on a 

fascinating journey through the times and spaces of girls' media 

culture, present and past, material and virtual, subversive and 

mainstream. From early twentieth- century Japan to 1970s rural 

Australia, from downtown high tech Singapore to the religiously 

traditional communities of northern Israel, this fabulous set of 

essays invites us to be guided by girls themselves through the 

diverse and dazzling terrain of the mediated cultures through which 

girlhoods are imagined, constructed, lived, and resisted globally. A 

truly important book for girls' studies." -- Anita Harris, Associate 

Professor, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of 

Queensland; Author of Future Girl: Young Women in the 21st Century





Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film 

at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Girls Make 

Media (2006), editor of The Gender and Media Reader (forthcoming, 

2011), and founding director of Cinemakids.



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