Girls' Media in the Women's Liberation Era [Hardcover]

Girls Media in the Womens Liberation Era?is a critical analysis and cultural history of popular girls media narratives produced in the U.S. between 1968 and 1980the era of the second-wave feminist movementand girls responses to those narratives.

Introduction??1. Girls in Revolt! Girls Activism and Citizenship in Sitcoms and Seventeen??2. Hear Me Roar! Girl Writing, Girl Talk, and Do-It-Yourself Citizenship??3. After School Lessons in Liberation: From ABC Afterschool Specials to Trina Portes Teen Diaries??4. Tomboy Tensions and Familys Queer Pleasures: The Curious Case of Kristy McNichol??5. Independence, Power, and Sexuality: Managing Female Adolescence in Disneys Witch Mountain Movies??Conclusion

This major contribution to feminist media studies is a sensitive and sharply observed study of the spaces through which 1970s girls and the media makers addressing them articulated youth social prospects, ambitions, interests and constraints.? Encompassing television, film, magazines and celebrity discourse Kirsten Pike tracks a revealing pattern of a feminism both emancipatory and cautionary. ?

- Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin, Ireland

Through innovative primary sources, trenchant analyses, and rich context, Kirsten Pike invites us into girls media worlds of the late 1960s and 1970s. Pike provides an in-depth examination of the magazines, television programs, and celebrities that engaged pre-teen and teen girls in an era of immense change to gender expectations, rights, and roles. Bringing together commercial media products and the everyday experiences of real girls, Pike delivers a wholly engaging and insightful contribution to feminist medialsÇ