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Girlhood in America : An Encyclopedia [2 Volumes] by Miriam Forman-Brunell, editor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls'roles in American society, past and present.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.

Who reads Girlhood in America : An Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]?

Author

Miriam Forman-Brunell, editor

Publisher

ABC-CLIO; Bloomsbury

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9798400657221

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Psychology, Gender Studies