附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing tween culture within girlhood studies / Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- Tween social and biological reproduction : early puberty in girls / Elizabeth Seton -- From nerd to popular? : re-figuring school identities and transformation stories / Marnina Gonick -- Video girls : between changing exploratory behavior and self-authorization / Kristina Hackmann -- Memory-work as a (be)tween research method : the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my hair / Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon and Sonya Corbin Dwyer -- Reading Elisabeth's girlhood : history and popular culture at work in the subjectivity of a tween / Meredith Cherland -- Mirrors and windows : re-reading South African girlhoods as strategies of selfhood / Marika Flockemann -- Reclaiming girlhood : understanding the lives of Balkishori in Mumbai / Balkishori team of VACHA women's resource center, with Jackie Kirk -- "I do know who I am" : writing, consciousness, and reflection / Relebohile Moletsane -- "Show me the panties" : girls play games in the school ground / Deevia Bhana -- Tween worlds : race, gender, age, identity, and violence / Yasmin Jiwani -- "Losers, Lolitas, and lesbos" : visualizing girlhood / Shannon Walsh -- In a girlie world : tweenies in Australia / Anita Harris -- Girl-doll : Barbie as puberty manual / Catherine Driscoll -- Consuming Hello Kitty : tween icon, sexy cute, and the changing meaning of "girlhood" / Amy T.Y. Lai -- Mediated consumption and fashionable selves : tween girls, fashion magazines, and shopping / Farah Malik -- Constructing the digital tween : market discourse and girls' interests / Rebekah Willett -- Imported girl fighters : ripeness and leakage in Sailor moon / Hoi F. Cheu -- Re-imagining girlhood : Hollywood and the tween girl film market / Peggy Tally -- The consumption chronicals : tales from suburban Canadian tweens in the 1980s / Natalie Coulter.
摘要:"The tween is the "new girl on the block" in girlhood studies. Although the study of tween life may have derived from a particular marketing orientation at the end of the twentieth century, it is not limited by it. On the contrary, this collection of essays shows that "tween" is not a simple or unified concept, nor is it limited to a certain class of girls in a few countries. This collection by an international group of authors highlights specific methodologies for working with (and studying) tween-age girls, provides challenges to the presumed innocence of girlhood, and engages in an analysis of marketing in relation to girlhood. In so doing, this book offers a reading on these three or four years in a girl's life that suggests that this period is as fascinating as the teen years, and as generative in its implications for girlhood studies as studies of both younger and adolescent girls."--Jacket
