Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Girls' Media Studies 2.0 1(16)

Mary Celeste Kearney

Part 1 Representation and Identity

1 Love and Friendship: The Queer Imagination of Japan's Early Girls' Culture 17(18)

Yuka Kanno

2 All-American Girl? Annette Funicello and Suburban Ethnicity 35(20)

Sarah Nilsen

3 "The New Activists": Girls and Discourses of Citizenship, Liberation, and Femininity in Seventeen, 1968-1977 55(20)

Kirsten Pike

4 Little Butches: Tomboys in Hollywood Film 75(18)

Kristen Hatch

5 This Tween Bridge over My Latina Girl Back: The US. Mainstream Negotiates Ethnicity 93(20)

Angharad N. Valdivia

Part 2 Reception and Use

6 "We Didn't Have Any Hannah Montanas": Girlhood, Popular Culture, and Mass Media in the 1940s and 1950s 113(20)

Rebecca C. Hains

Shayla Thiel-Stern

Sharon R Mazzarella

7 Becoming a Country Girl: Gough, Kate, the CWA, and Me 133(18)

Catherine Driscoll

8 Falling in Love with High School Musical: Girls' Talk about Romantic Perceptions 151(20)

Shiri Reznik

Dafna Lemish

9 Playing Online: Pre-Teen Girls' Negotiations of Pop and Porn in Cyberspace 171(18)

Sarah Baker

10 Role Models and Drama Queens: African Films and the Formation of Good Women 189(14)

Sandra Grady

11 "She was like___": Re-framing Hip-Hop Identity Politics through Dance and Gesture 203(18)

Jennifer Woodruff

Part 3 Production and Technology

12 Remixing Educational History: Girls and Their Memory Albums, 1913-1929 221(22)

Jane Greer

13 Girls Talk Tech: Exploring Singaporean Girls' Perceptions and Uses of Information and Communication Technologies 243(18)

Sun Sun Lim

Jemima Ooi

14 Surveilling the Girl via the Third and Networked Screen 261(16)

Leslie Regan Shade

15 Branding the Post-Feminist Self: Girls' Video Production and YouTube 277(18)

Sarah Banet-Weiser
Contributors 295(6)
Index 301