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Mary Celeste Kearney <[log in to unmask]>
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Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture
Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney
Peter Lang, February 2011


Available from 
<http://www.amazon.com/Mediated-Girlhoods-Explorations-Girls-Culture/dp/1433105616/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295721354&sr=8-1>Amazon 
and 
<http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=53970&cid=5&concordeid=310561>Peter 
Lang Publishing


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 
<http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=series&pk=687&concordeid=MY>Mediated 
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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