American Sweethearts
Teenage Girls in Twentieth-century Popular Culture
by Ilana Nash
264 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780253218025
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Discusses the role of teenage girls in popular culture, including films, comics, and television, in the U.S. since the 1930s, examining figures such as Nancy Drew, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, critiquing the oversexualization and infantilization of the image of young women.
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