Girl talk : adolescent magazines and their readers / Dawn H. Currie.

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Challenging assumptions about women's magazines, Currie looks at young readers and how they interpret the message of magazines in their everyday lives. A fascinating, sometimes surprising study of young women and their relationship with print media.

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Although a great deal of feminist scholarship in recent years has focused on women's magazines, much less research has been accomplished on girls' magazines, perhaps because scholars view such texts "simply [as] a younger' version of the more general genre of women's magazines." Currie addresses this oversight, suggesting that the messages in girls' magazines do not always mirror those in women's publications. She argues that in order to understand how girls grow into "correctly" gendered adults, one must pay attention to the messages about gender roles conveyed by girls' magazines and by a host of other popular media sources. What follows is a well-researched study about girls and their popular reading practices. Beyond this, Currie also provides an insightful exploration of how girls' magazines teach their readers about the consumption habits they should adopt as teens and, later, grown women. For many reasons, this book is engaging reading for any researcher studying girls' reading habits and consumption practices. Thanks to the acumen of its scholarship, Girl Talk will become one of the standard references for undergraduate and advanced scholars wishing to understand more about girls' popular reading. S. A. Inness; Miami University