Tweenhood : femininity and celebrity in tween popular culture / Melanie Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Melanie, author.

Series:

Library of gender and popular culture ; 1.

Library of gender and polular culture ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preteen girls.

Celebrities in popular culture.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2019.

Contents:

1 The Reconciliation of Femininity and Feminism p. 27

True Friends, Surveillance and Authentic Femininity p. 32

Mean Girls and the Makeover p. 35

Intergenerational Female Conflict and Princesshood p. 44

Second Wave Mothers p. 47

Selfish Stepmothers p. 49

Pre-Feminist Fairy God- / Grandmothers p. 52

Sparkle and the Reconciliation of Femininity and Feminism in Princesshood p. 55

2 Narratives of Celebrity p. 59

Ascribed Celebrity p. 64

Achieved Celebrity p. 65

Attributed Celebrity p. 69

Becoming Celebrity and Becoming Princess p. 71

Not-Yet-Achieved Celebrity p. 75

Authenticity and the Celebrification of Tween Selfhood p. 78

3 Narratives of Father-Daughter Transformation p. 87

The Generation X Man-in-Crisis Learning to Parent p. 90

The Valourization of Single Fatherhood p. 98

Over-protective Generation X Fathers p. 101

Father-Daughter Transformations p. 107

4 Growing Up Female with Miley Cyrus, Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana p. 111

The Ordinary / Extraordinary Paradox of Hannah Montana p. 114

The South and Authenticity in Hannah Montana p. 118

The Stewarts, the Cyruses and the South p. 126

Becoming Woman, Becoming Celebrity p. 134

5 Falling in Love with the Jonas Brothers p. 141

The Jonas Brothers and Teenybopper Culture p. 143

The Family and Keeping it Real p. 149

The Jonas Brothers and the Purity Movement p. 154

The Desirable Tween p. 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780768427

1780768427

OCLC:

1081125786