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Ilana NashPublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.G55 N37 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shaped our view of the adolescent girl as an individual who is simultaneously sexualized and infantilized. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- Girls in literature
- Young adult fiction, American — History and criticism
- Teenage girls — Books and reading — United States
- Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
- Teenage girls in popular culture
- Teenage girls in motion pictures
- Teenage girls in literature
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- Radical notions : Nancy Drew and her readers, 1930-1949
- Pretty baby : Nancy Drew goes to Hollywood
- Delightfully dangerous girls in the 1940s
- The postwar fall and rise of teen girls
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- 0253346592
- 0253218020
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