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Author: Ilana Nash Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253218025 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. While young women have received some positive lessons from these cultural icons, the overwhelming message conveyed by the characters and stories they inhabit stresses the dominance of the father and the teenage girl's otherness, subordination, and ineptitude. As sweet as a cherry lollipop and as tangy as a Sweetart, this book is an entertaining yet thoughtful exploration of the image of the American girl.
Author: Ilana Nash Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253218025 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. While young women have received some positive lessons from these cultural icons, the overwhelming message conveyed by the characters and stories they inhabit stresses the dominance of the father and the teenage girl's otherness, subordination, and ineptitude. As sweet as a cherry lollipop and as tangy as a Sweetart, this book is an entertaining yet thoughtful exploration of the image of the American girl.
Author: Mary Young Publisher: ISBN: 9781574324501 Category : Paper dolls Languages : en Pages : 0
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Mary Young is well known for her numerous books on paper dolls that were published from the 1970s to 2000. She is back with an all-new title, 20th Century Paper Dolls, now in full color and updated with more than 1,300 photographs. Arranged alphabetically by paper doll company, the book provides brief company histories, when known, and pertinent facts for every item shown. Approximately 150 companies are featured, including Sam Gabriel, Milton Bradley, Magic Wand, McLoughlin, Dennison, Parker Brothers, Warren Paper Products, Stecher Lithographic Company, American Colortype, Burton Playthings, Transogram Toy Company, and many more. All paper dolls are identified by company and number (if they have one) and are assigned current collector values. A handy index and paper doll checklists are also provided.
Author: Peter N. Stearns Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 9780814779965 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.
Author: Winifred Mills Publisher: ISBN: 1446542084 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 98
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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Author: Harry Perry Robinson Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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"The Twentieth Century American" by Harry Perry Robinson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Valerie Tripp Publisher: Turtleback Books ISBN: 9780613289528 Category : Depressions Languages : en Pages : 0
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For more than 15 years, The American Girls Collection has captivated readers with its tales of heart, hope and history. Millions of girls have fallen in love with the series' strong, appealing heroines
Author: Sherrie A. Inness Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 081473765X Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 333
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The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
Author: Connie Rose Porter Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9780780725683 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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Before they can make the attempt, Master Stevens decides to sell some of his slaves and the family is separated. American Girls Collection/Addy #1.
Author: William Loren Katz Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 9780807054536 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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The Cruel Years provides readers with a vivid picture of what life was like a hundred years ago, not for the rich and famous but for ordinary working Americans. The story is told in the words of twenty-two fascinating people who lived by laboring long hours at farms and factories and mines. A preface by Howard Zinn and an introduction by William Loren Katz provide an easy-to-follow historical map that places these hard-hitting, first-person narratives in the context of their troubled times and within the larger picture of U.S. growth and development. Here are the no-nonsense words of a young immigrant trying to survive as a sweatshop operator in New York City, a hard working farmer's wife who has writing ambitions; a black southern sharecropper seeking fulfillment under a new system of slavery; a young Puerto Rican passing the Statue of Liberty and ready for new challenges; a Chinese immigrant, a Mexican immigrant, and a Japanese immigrant struggling to rise from lower rungs on the social and economic ladder; an Irish girl of sixteen deciding to become a political agitator; a black southern woman trying to fend off the hurts of Jim Crow; a coal miner telling of the lethal dangers of his work; and a black cowhand rejoicing in the thrill of the cattle trails.
Author: Ilana Nash
Author: Ilana Nash
Author: Mary Young
Author: Johana Gast Anderton
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Author: Winifred Mills
Author: Harry Perry Robinson
Author: Valerie Tripp
Author: Sherrie A. Inness
Author: Connie Rose Porter
Author: William Loren Katz