Girlfighting

Girlfighting

Author: Lyn Mikel Brown

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0814799515

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A psychological analysis of young female aggression notes the pervasiveness of negative women stereotypes in fairy tales and pop culture, examining the ways in which society reinforces and nurtures mean behavior in girls.


Beautiful Fighting Girl

Beautiful Fighting Girl

Author: Tamaki Saitō

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0816654506

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From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.


Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends

Manga Mania: Magical Girls and Friends

Author: Christopher Hart

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780823029686

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The author's distinctive step-by-step approach to drawing manja shoujo, funny mascots, magical boys, fighting teams, and supporting characters is accompanied by detailed instructions on how to design layouts. Original.


Girls' Studies

Girls' Studies

Author: Elline Lipkin

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0786744634

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Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies—the socialization of girls versus boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future.


Problem Girls

Problem Girls

Author: Gwynedd Lloyd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1134412894

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This book explores the issues surrounding girls and young women who are seen as troubled or troublesome. It sets out to further our understanding of young women who face or cause difficulties, offering a diverse and complex view. Recognising the increasing importance of schools as the primary source of support for girls and young women, the chapters discuss the implications for practice of teachers and other professionals, covering important issues like: girls' classroom behaviour mental health problems violence and sexuality exclusion and community offences. By presenting a range of theoretical perspectives, readers of this book will be encouraged to reflect on what underpins the actions of girls and young women and take their voices seriously. It will be essential reading for practitioners and professionals in Education, as well as students and academics in the field.


Girlfight

Girlfight

Author: Frank Lauria

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780743419055

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"You're nothing but trouble..." "You'll never amount to anything..." YOU WILL PROVE THEM WRONG Nothing comes easy for Diana Guzman. She's in trouble at school, her father underestimates her, and her friends are few. Then, in a gritty Brooklyn gym, she discovers the secret world of boxing. Day by day, as she trains in secret, she finds an outlet for all her anger, energy, and frustration. And Adrian, a handsome young boxer with dreams of his own, is soon part of the attraction. Now Diana is feeling something new -- confidence, pride, respect. She's standing a little bit taller, and in the blood, sweat, and roar of the ring, she's going the distance. But the cost of winning may be the love she has just begun to taste...


Beyond Bad Girls

Beyond Bad Girls

Author: Meda Chesney-Lind

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1134000456

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In this important new work, two respected criminologists challenge the characterization of the new 'bad girl' arguing that it is only a new attempt to punish girls who are not the stereotypical depiction of good. Through interviews with young women, educators and people in the criminal justice system, Beyond Bad Girls exposes the formal and informal systems of socio-cultural control imposed on girls.


Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Author: Jessica K. Taft

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0814783252

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Visit theUnspun website which includes Table of Contents and the Introduction. The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print media, television, movies, and even presidential campaign speeches, just how thoroughly do the users immersed in this new technology understand it? What, exactly, is the Web changing? And how might we participate in or even direct Web-related change? Intended for readers new to studying the Internet, each chapter in Unspun addresses a different aspect of the "web revolution"--hypertext, multimedia, authorship, community, governance, identity, gender, race, cyberspace, political economy, and ideology--as it shapes and is shaped by economic, political, social, and cultural forces. The contributors particularly focus on the language of the Web, exploring concepts that are still emerging and therefore unstable and in flux. Unspun demonstrates how the tacit assumptions behind this rhetoric must be examined if we want to really know what we are saying when we talk about the Web. Unspun will help readers more fully understand and become critically aware of the issues involved in living, as we do, in a wired society. Contributors include: Jay Bolter, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Dawn Dietrich, Cynthia Fuchs, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Timothy Luke, Vincent Mosco, Lisa Nakamura, Russell Potter, Rob Shields, John Sloop, and Joseph Tabbi.


Spectacular Girls

Spectacular Girls

Author: Sarah Projansky

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2014-02-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0814770444

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Winner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look. Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projanskyuses a queer, anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods in contemporary popular culture.The book addresses two key themes: simultaneous adoration and disdain for girls and the pervasiveness of whiteness and heteronormativity. While acknowledging this context, Projansky pushes past the dichotomy of the “can-do” girl who has the world at her feet and the troubled girl who needs protection and regulation to focus on the variety of alternative figures who appear in media culture, including queer girls, girls of color, feminist girls, active girls, and sexual girls, all of whom are present if we choose to look for them. Drawing on examples across film, television, mass-market magazines and newspapers, live sports TV, and the Internet, Projansky combines empirical analysis with careful, creative, feminist analysis intent on centering alternative girls. She undermines the pervasive “moral panic” argument that blames media itself for putting girls at risk by engaging multiple methodologies, including, for example, an ethnographic study of young girls who themselves critique media. Arguing that feminist media studies needs to understand the spectacularization of girlhood more fully, she places active, alternative girlhoods right in the heart of popular media culture.