Tweenhood : femininity and celebrity in tween popular culture / Melanie Kennedy.
A powerful female, pre-adolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet the cultural anxiety that this has caused has received scant academic attention. In Tweenhood, Melanie Kennedy rectifies this and examines mainstream...
| Uniform Title: | Library of gender and popular culture ;
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| Language: | English |
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London :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
2019.
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| Series: | Library of gender and popular culture ;
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: who is the tween?
- The reconciliation of femininity and feminism
- Narratives of celebrity
- Narratives of father-daughter transformation
- Growing up female with Miley Cyrus, Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana
- Falling in love with the Jonas Brothers
- Conclusion: doing tweenhood.