The Re-description of Girls in Crisis

Bibliographic Data

ID12974896
AuthorsCarrie A Rentschler (0000-0002-2073-0559, corresponding author), Claudia Mitchell (0000-0002-9790-2486)
Year2014
Volume7
Issue1
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGirlhood Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ghs.2014.070102
OpenAlexW1999734825
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Girlhood Studies scholars respond to an overwhelming portrayal of girls as either bad or needing rescue in, for example, mainstream films on mean girls, popular psychology texts on primarily light-skinned middle class girls’ plummeting self-esteem, and media panics about teen girl sexting. According to Sharon Mazzarella and Norma Pecora, “In response to public anxiety and cultural fascination,” in “academic studies of girls...the emphasis has shifted slightly so that the discourse is no longer linked primarily to crisis” (2007: 105). Still, in popular and policy discourse today, girls are often unfairly and inaccurately cast as either super agents or failing subjects

Anxiety · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Girl · Mainstream · Media studies · Middle class · Moral panic · Political science · Popular culture · Psychiatry · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics