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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Girl power"”.
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Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media
… of three examples from recent popular culture of girlculture, specifically texts that target young female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic models because they not only reflect …
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Girl of Color-Power: Resisting the Neoliberal Girl Power Agent
<p>Girl power is a complex and multi-dimensional phrase. It is a term that celebrates the positive development of girls' self-esteem, while simultaneously recognizing the shifting social positioning of girlhood in the late twentieth century. It is a call to re-write girls' passivity but …
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From masculine myths to girl power realities: The athletic female body and the legend of Title IX
… of female physicality as a healthy and empowering practice. Consequently, this study explores how these commonsense definitions of the athletic female body have functioned to delimit the acceptable boundaries of female athleticism, define women’s sport history, frame debates about Title …
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(School) girl power : the construction and contradiction of the cultural figure of the schoolgirl across contemporary popular culture
Girls are significant consumers of media and popular culture. As the girl power movement gained popularity alongside the rise of postfeminism in the late 1990s, representations of girls were held to demonstrate model citizenship. With schoolgirls being representative of almost all women and girls, …
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From Wronged to Rights: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Freetown, through the lens of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Sexual and gender-based violence against girls and young women is an entrenched and widespread problem in Sierra Leone. In this qualitative research, conducted in two Freetown slum communities, girls and young women faced sexual and gender-based violence in both their private and public spheres: in …
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From the DSM to Ophelia: Teenage Girls and the Psychological Complex
… at the psychological construction of teenage girls in popular culture. It investigates how understandings of psychological crisis in teenage girls become popularized, and considers the political implications of these popularizations, arguing that current conceptualizations are not only …
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Bienvenida a Disney princess Elena: Exploring race, age, and gender in Disney’s Elena of Avalor
… of Media Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Girls’ Studies, this dissertation explores Disney’s contemporary construction of Latinidad by focusing on Elena of Avalor, Disney’s first Latina princess. Situated against the backdrop of contemporary postfeminist and neoliberal discourses of girls, …
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Love me long time: safety and risk in heterocoupledom at adolescence.
… at adolescence discursively constitutes Girlfriends and Boyfriends as gendered subjects of safety and risk. The gendering of safety and risk operates to position Girlfriends as risk navigators who make pre-emptive and response-able moves. Safety and risk are regarded as disciplinary …