Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood (Paperback)

Contents: Claudia Mitchell/Jacqueline Reid-Walsh: Theorizing Tween Culture Within Girlhood Studies ? Elizabeth Seaton: Tween Social and Biological Reproduction: Early Puberty in Girls ? Marnina Gonick: From Nerd to Popular? Re-figuring School Identities and Transformation Stories ? Kristina Hackmann: Video Girls: Between Changing Exploratory Behavior and Self-authorization ? Kathleen O’Reilly-Scanlon/Sonya Corbin Dwyer: Memory-work as a (be)Tween Research Method: The Beauty, the Splendor, the Wonder of My Hair ? Meredith Cherland: Reading Elisabeth’s Girlhood: History and Popular Culture at Work in the Subjectivity of a Tween ? Marika Flockemann: Mirrors and Windows: Re-reading South African Girlhoods as Strategies of Selfhood ? Balkishori Team of VACHA Women’s Resource Center with Jackie Kirk: Reclaiming Girlhood: Understanding the Lives of Balkishori in Mumbai ? Relebohile Moletsane: ≪I do know who I am≫: Writing, Consciousness and Reflection ? Deevia Bhana: ≪Show Me the Panties≫: Girls Play Games in the School Ground ? Yasmin Jiwani: Tween Worlds: Race, Gender, Age, Identity, and Violence ? Shannon Walsh: ≪Losers, Lolitas, and Lesbos≫: Visualizing Girlhood ? Anita Harris: In a Girlie World: Tweenies in Australia ? Catherine Driscoll: Girl-Doll: Barbie as Puberty Manual ? Amy T.Y. Lai: Consuming Hello Kitty: Tween Icon, Sexy Cute, and the Changing Meaning of ‘Girlhood’ ? Farah Malik: Mediated Consumption and Fashionable Selves: Tween Girls, Fashion Magazines, and Shopping ? Rebekah Willett: Constructing the Digital Tween: Market Discourse and Girls’ Interests ? Hoi F. Cheu: Imported Girl Fighters: Ripeness and Leakage in Sailor Moon ? Peggy Tally: Re-imagining Girlhood: Hollywood and the Tween Girl Film Market ? Natalie Coulter: The Consumption Chronicles: Tales from Suburban Canadian Tweens in the 1980s.