Daddy's girl : young girls and popular culture
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Daddy's girl : young girls and popular culture
Macmillan, 1997
- pbk
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Bibliography: p. 195-199
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780333647790
Description
Daddy's Girl looks critically at little girls as both the objects of and consumers of popular culture. Looking at examples ranging from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie in the 1920s to Minipops in the 1980s and Popskool in the 1990s, as well as girls holding talent contests and watching TV at home, the author confronts the way in which they are simultaneously portrayed as innocent and erotic and asks what this means for the little working-class girls who long to join the glamorous ranks of the famous.
Table of Contents
Thank Heaven for Little Girls.- The Working Class and the Popular.- Towards a Psychology of Survival.- A Question of Method.- Little Girls as Heroines and Stars.- Girls Watching Films at Home.- Putting Your Daughter on Stage.- Advertising Girls.
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pbk ISBN 9780333647806
Description
Daddy's Girl looks critically at little girls as both the objects of and consumers of popular culture. Looking at examples ranging from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie in the 1920s to Minipops in the 1980s and Popskool in the 90s, as well as girls holding talent contests and watching TV at home, the author confronts the way in which they are simultaneously portrayed as innocent and erotic and asks what this means for the little working class girls who long to join the glamorous ranks of the famous.
Table of Contents
Thank Heaven for Little Girls - The Working Class and the Popular - Towards a Psychology of Survival - A Question of Method - Little Girls as Heroines and Stars - Girls Watching Films at Home - Putting Your Daughter on Stage - Advertising Girls
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