Seven Going on Seventeen : Tween Studies in

The tween is the "new girl on the block" in girlhood studies. Although the study of tween life may have derived from a particular marketing orientation at the end of the twentieth century, it is not limited by it. On the contrary, this collection of essay

List of Illustrations

xi

List of Tables

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

Theorizing Tween Culture Within Girlhood Studies

1

(24)

Claudia Mitchell

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

Part I Girl-method

Tween Social and Biological Reproduction: Early Puberty in Girls

25

(21)

Elizabeth Seaton

From Nerd to Popular? Re-figuring School Identities and Transformation Stories

46

(17)

Marnina Gonick

Video Girls: Between Changing Exploratory Behavior and Self-authorization

63

(16)

Kristina Hackmann

Memory-work as a (be)Tween Research Method: The Beauty, the Splendor, the Wonder of My Hair

79

(16)

Kathleen O'Reilly-Scanlon

Sonya Corbin Dwyer

Reading Elisabeth's Girlhood: History and Popular Culture at Work in the Subjectivity of a Tween

95

(22)

Meredith Cherland

Mirrors and Windows: Re-reading South African Girlhoods as Strategies of Selfhood

117

(18)

Marika Flockemann

Part II Knowing Girls

Reclaiming Girlhood: Understanding the Lives of Balkishori in Mumbai

135

(13)

Jackie Kirk

``I do know who I am'': Writing, Consciousness, and Reflection

148

(15)

Relebohile Moletsane

``Show Me the Panties'': Girls Play Games in the School Ground

163

(10)

Deevia Bhana

Tween Worlds: Race, Gender, Age, Identity, and Violence

173

(18)

Yasmin Jiwani

``Losers, Lolitas, and Lesbos'': Visualizing Girlhood

191

(18)

Shannon Walsh

Part III Marketing Girlhood/Consuming Girlhood

In a Girlie World: Tweenies in Australia

209

(15)

Anita Harris

Girl-Doll: Barbie as Puberty Manual

224

(18)

Catherine Driscoll

Consuming Hello Kitty: Tween Icon, Sexy Cute, and the Changing Meaning of `Girlhood'

242

(15)

Amy T.Y. Lai

Mediated Consumption and Fashionable Selves: Tween Girls, Fashion Magazines, and Shopping

257

(21)

Farah Malik

Constructing the Digital Tween: Market Discourse and Girls' Interests

278

(16)

Rebekah Willett

Imported Girl Fighters: Ripeness and Leakage in Sailor Moon

294

(17)

Hoi F. Cheu

Re-imagining Girlhood: Hollywood and the Tween Girl Film Market

311

(19)

Peggy Tally

The Consumption Chronicles: Tales from Suburban Canadian Tweens in the 1980s

330

(17)

Natalie Coulter

List of Contributors

347

(6)

Author Index

353

(2)

Subject Index

355

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