Locating Tween Girls

dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorCoulter, Natalie
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-18T16:46:23Z
dc.date.available2021-03-18T16:46:23Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-01
dc.description.abstractWe reflect on the media coverage of Amy “Dolly” Everett’s death by suicide to highlight the continued spectacularization of tweenhood as an idealized form of white feminine beauty tied to consumer culture, and one that shores up contradictory notions of the can-do/at-risk girl binary. We consider contemporary tweenhood’s continuities with the visibility and concerns of girlhood from the 1990s while questioning what a definition of tweenhood in the age of digital media and beyond the boundaries of whiteness, heteronormativity, able-bodiedness, and the Global North might look like. Calling for a discursive approach to understandings and conceptualizations of tweens, we introduce the eight articles in this special issue that range from media representations of the tween to lived experiences of actual tween girls.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKennedy, M., & Coulter, N. (2018). Locating Tween Girls, Girlhood Studies, 11(1), 1-7. Retrieved from https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/11/1/ghs110102.xmlen_US
dc.identifier.issn1938-8322
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2018.110102en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38260
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherGirlhood Studiesen_US
dc.rights.articlehttps://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/11/1/ghs110102.xml?rskey=wZkRVj&result=1&ArticleBodyColorStyles=full-texten_US
dc.rights.journalhttps://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/girlhood-studies-overview.xmlen_US
dc.rights.publisherhttps://www.berghahnjournals.com/en_US
dc.subjectAmy "Dolly" Everetten_US
dc.subjectconsumer cultureen_US
dc.subjectliminalityen_US
dc.subjectmedia usersen_US
dc.subjectraceen_US
dc.titleLocating Tween Girlsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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