Overview
- Provides a valuable and timely contribution to understanding girlhood in the contemporary period
- Contains unique ethnographic data of a class of girls, following their stories over a year
- Presents insights into the girls’ everyday social worlds and the complexity of this period of “in-betweenness”
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the ways in which notions of childhood are being influenced by a rapidly expanding consumer-media culture in the 21st Century. It has been argued that new stages of childhood are being created and defined by children’s role as consumers. The concept of ‘tween’, girls aged between 9 and 14, has generated the greatest debate. While the fantasy world of ‘tween’ offers girls a space to fashion a young, feminine identity it has been widely argued that the consumer-media’s messages pressure tween girls to consume and adopt highly sexualised appearances and behaviours.
The author considers how the art of consumption for ‘tween’ girls is intrinsically linked with their desire for independence and belonging, and how their consumption is interwoven with other important social and cultural influences.
The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Childhood and Youth Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist andWomen’s Studies and Sociology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fiona MacDonald is Research Manager in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Childhood and Tween Girl Culture
Book Subtitle: Family, Media and Locality
Authors: Fiona MacDonald
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55130-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55129-0Published: 06 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71575-6Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55130-6Published: 23 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 191
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Gender Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture