Kate Harper

Out of Reach (eBook, PDF)

The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series in the 20th century. Out of Reach illuminates the ways in which the ideal girl trope accommodates social changes, taking in that which makes it stronger and further solidifying its core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000682526
• Artikelnr.: 58062995

Autorenporträt

Kate G. Harper holds a PhD (Arizona State University) and an MA (Georgia State University) in Women and Gender Studies. She has taught courses on gender in literature, popular culture, and daily life in the Departments of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado Boulder. She has previously published work on the Nancy Drew series in Girlhood Studies and is a coeditor of Girls' Sexualities and the Media (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An American Girl at Her Best
1. A Girl of Today: Merging Models of Girlhood in Dorothy Dale
2. Who Is Nancy Drew? The Arrival of the Great Girl Sleuth
3. The Ideal Girl Goes to Work: Negotiating the Fractured Fifties
4. The Baby-Sitters Club Sells Diversity
5. Sweet Valley High Romances the Ideal Girl
Conclusions