[ecrea] new book: Mediated Girlhoods

> Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture
> Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney
> Peter Lang, February 2011
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> Available from 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Mediated-Girlhoods-Explorations-Girls-Culture/dp/1433105616/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295721354&sr=8-1>Amazon 
> and 
> <http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=53970&cid=5&concordeid=310561>Peter 
> Lang Publishing
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>
> Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture is the 
> first anthology devoted specifically to scholarship on girls' media 
> culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes analyses of 
> girls' media representations, media consumption, and media 
> production. The book responds to criticisms of previous research in 
> the field by including studies of girls who are not white, 
> middle-class, heterosexual, or Western, while also including 
> historical research. Approaching girlhood, media, and methodology 
> broadly, Mediated Girlhoods contains studies of previously 
> unexplored topics, such as feminist themes in teen magazines, 
> girl-made memory books, country girlhoods, girls' self-branding on 
> YouTube, and the surveillance of girls via new media technologies. 
> The volume serves as a companion to Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, 
> and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture, edited by Annette 
> Wannamaker, and is part of Sharon R. Mazzarella's 
> <http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=series&pk=687&concordeid=MY>Mediated 
> Youth series for Peter Lang.
>
>
> "This is a wonderfully rich collection of work that moves girls' 
> media studies way beyond the conventional and into important 
> territory of production and critical engagement, innovative 
> methodologies and new voices. Mediated Girlhoods takes us on a 
> fascinating journey through the times and spaces of girls' media 
> culture, present and past, material and virtual, subversive and 
> mainstream. From early twentieth- century Japan to 1970s rural 
> Australia, from downtown high tech Singapore to the religiously 
> traditional communities of northern Israel, this fabulous set of 
> essays invites us to be guided by girls themselves through the 
> diverse and dazzling terrain of the mediated cultures through which 
> girlhoods are imagined, constructed, lived, and resisted globally. A 
> truly important book for girls' studies." -- Anita Harris, Associate 
> Professor, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of 
> Queensland; Author of Future Girl: Young Women in the 21st Century
>
>
> Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film 
> at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Girls Make 
> Media (2006), editor of The Gender and Media Reader (forthcoming, 
> 2011), and founding director of Cinemakids.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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