| Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood Contributor(s): Steinberg, Shirley R. (Editor), Kincheloe, Joe L. (Editor), Mitchell, Claudia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820467715 ISBN-13: 9780820467719 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $49.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - Education - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| LCCN: 2004022766 |
| Series: Counterpoints |
| Physical Information: 362 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The tween is the new girl on the block in girlhood studies. Although the study of tween life may have derived from a particular marketing orientation at the end of the twentieth century, it is not limited by it. On the contrary, this collection of essays shows that tween is not a simple or unified concept, nor is it limited to a certain class of girls in a few countries. This collection by an international group of authors highlights specific methodologies for working with (and studying) tween-age girls, provides challenges to the presumed innocence of girlhood, and engages in an analysis of marketing in relation to girlhood. In so doing, this book offers a reading on these three or four years in a girl's life that suggests that this period is as fascinating as the teen years, and as generative in its implications for girlhood studies as studies of both younger and adolescent girls. |