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. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html