Growing up Girls

The Editors: Sharon R. Mazzarella received her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. She is Associate Professor of Television-Radio at Ithaca College where she teaches courses in youth culture, media effects, and research methods. Her research focuses on youth culture and mass media. She has published articles in Popular Music and Society, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and Communication Research. Currently, she is writing a book on media framing of Generation X. Norma Odom Pecora received her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. She is Assistant Professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University, where she teaches courses in children and the media, media theory, research methods, and women and the media. Her research focus is on gender issues and children's media. Her most recent work is The Business of Children's Entertainment.

Contents: Norma Pecora/Sharon R. Mazzarella: Introduction – Lana F. Rakow/Caitlin S. Rakow: Educating Barbie – Amy Bowles-Reyer: Becoming a Woman in the 1970s: Female Adolescent Sexual Identity and Popular Literature – Norma Pecora: Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels – Sarah Eisenstein Stumbar/Zillah Eisenstein: Girlhood Pastimes: «American Girls» and The Rest of Us – Sharon R. Mazzarella: The «Superbowl of All Dates»: Teenage Girl Magazines and the Commodification of the Perfect Prom – Debra L. Merskin: What Every Girl Should Know: An Analysis of Feminine Hygiene Advertising – Amy Aidman: Disney's Pocahontas: Conversations with Native American and Euro-American Girls – Angharad N. Valdivia/Rhiannon S. Bettivia: A Guided Tour through One Adolescent Girl’s Culture – Carol Jennings: Girls Make Music: Polyphony and Identity in Teenage Rock Bands – Meenakshi Gigi Durham: Out of the Indian Diaspora: Mass Media, Myths of Femininity, and the Negotiation of Adolescence between Two Cultures – Mary K. Bentley: The Body of Evidence: Dangerous Intersections between Development and Culture in the Lives of Adolescent Girls.