Description
In From the Dance Hall to Facebook, Shayla Thiel-Stern takes a close look at several historical snapshots, including working-class girls in dance halls of the early 1900s; girls' track and field teams in the 1920s to 1940s; Elvis Presley fans in the mid-1950s; punk rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and girls using the Internet in the early twenty-first century. In each case, issues of gender, socioeconomic status, and race are explored within their historical context. The book argues that by marginalizing and stereotyping teen girls over the past century, mass media have perpetuated a pattern of gendered crisis that ultimately limits the cultural and political power of the young women it covers.
About the Author
Shayla Thiel-Stern is assistant professor in journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota, and author of Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging.
Book Information
ISBN 9781625340917
Author Shayla Thiel-Stern
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
Weight(grams) 345g