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From the dance hall to Facebook : teen girls, mass media, and moral panic in the United States, 1905-2010 / Shayla Thiel-Stern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thiel-Stern, Shayla, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--United States--Social conditions.
- Teenage girls.
- Mass media and teenage girls--United States.
- Mass media and teenage girls.
- Sex role in mass media.
- Journalism--Objectivity--United States.
- Journalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From the days of the penny press to the contemporary world of social media, journalistic accounts of teen girls in trouble have been a mainstay of the U.S.news media.Often the stories represent these girls as either victims or whores (and sometimes both), using journalistic storytelling devices and news-gathering practices that question girls'.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: media, panic, and teen girls in recreational space
- The dance hall evil, 1905/1928
- The rise and fall of girls' track and field, 1920/1940
- The Elvis problem, 1956/1959
- Punk rock and a crisis of femininity, 1976/1986
- Policing teen girls online, 2004/2010
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-309-3
- OCLC:
- 896890201
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