Girls, Power and Style
Social and Emotional Experiences of the Clothed Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilie Zaslow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.2009.020108 |
| OpenAlex | W2079680708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Drawing on ethnographic research with a diverse group of teen girls, this article asks how play with style is understood and enacted. By positioning girls' everyday transactions with style beside their engagement with style in media, this article demonstrates that girls live with a cultural discordance between the girl power media discourse of style as choice, power, and resistance, and the reality of their own, often disempowered, experiences with style. Bound by the promise of upward social mobility, the fear of losing status, and the risk of remaining in the low income and middle class communities in which they were raised, the girls in this study feel regulated and, at times, hurt by the required performance of the clothed body
Art · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Girl · Literature · Middle class · Political science · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Social power · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Anthropology · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |