Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Ann Harlan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2017.100306 |
| OpenAlex | W2772102765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In 2016 two nonfiction titles exploring girls and sexuality and presentations of the sexual self received extensive media attention, thus shaping a construction of girl in popular media. In this article I examine how Nancy Jo Sales’s American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers and Peggy Orenstein’s Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape construct girls as sexual subjects and desired objects. In a close reading of the texts I consider how the authors constitute girl and the ways in which girls navigate society’s expectations and constructions of them as sexual subjects. I use the words of girls themselves to examine the dissonance between authorial constructions and the post-feminist culture that emerges in the texts on the one hand, and the girls’ language on the other
Art · Developmental psychology · Girl · Literature · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |