Untaming girlhoods: storytelling female adolescence
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Main Author: Santos, Cristina 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY Routledge 2023
Edition:First published
Series:Interdisciplinary research in gender
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Links:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429491566
Abstract:"This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised in popular narrative, film and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female, and often an action figure in her own right. Through a selection of popular culture touchstones this empowerment is questioned as a manipulation of feminist ideals of equality and a continuation of the traditional vision of female awakening centering on issues of personal choice, physical violence and, purity and beauty. By investigating re-occurring storytelling frameworks and archetypes, Untaming Girlhoods examines different portrayals of girl(hood)s in the 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American cultural imaginary that configure modern girl(hood)s beyond the fairy tale princess or the damsel in distress-into refigurations that venture away from the well-trodden path for a new breakaway path to selfhood. This will be a useful and enlightening text for students and researchers in Girlhood Studies, Gender Studies, Film Studies and Media Studies"--
Physical Description:256 pages illustrations (black and white) 24 cm
ISBN:9781138589551
1138589551
9781032457444
1032457449