Currie, Dawn, 1948-

'Girl power' : girls reinventing girlhood / Dawn H. Currie, Deirdre M. Kelly, Shauna Pomerantz. - xxiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Mediated youth, v. 4 1555-1814 ; . - Mediated youth ; v. 4. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-269) and index.

(Re)claiming girlhood -- "Hardly innocent" : popular meanings of girlhood -- Doing "girl power" -- "The power to squash people" : popular girls -- Breaking the rules : skater girls -- Playing with gender : online girls -- On the move : girls, girlhood, and feminism in motion -- "Girl power" revisited -- Shaping girlhood : lessons for the classroom, school, and beyond.

0820488771 9780820488776 1433105713 9781433105715

2008043863


Teenage girls--Social conditions
Girls--Social conditions
Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
Feminism.

HQ798 / .C87 2009

305.2352