packaging marketers education daughters

books:

The coalition vs. Mean Girls.: An article from: New Moon
Lyn Mikel Brown

New Moon Publishing, 2004

This digital document is an article from New Moon, published by New Moon Publishing on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 608 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The coalition vs. Mean Girls. Author: Lyn Mikel ...

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

21 reviews
Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown

St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

rescue your daughter
This book was a revelation for me. I appreciate all the effort and research the authors did to help parents sort out the motives of modern marketers and the media when it comes to girls. I am definitely more aware of the destructive messages that are bombarding today's girls and teens. Why do toddler jeans come with little purses? Why do so many products for teens pit one type of girl against ...

Meeting at the Crossroads

3 reviews
Carol Gilligan, Lyn Mikel Brown

Ballantine Books, 1993

Articulate description of girls' journey to adolescence
This book was based on five years of interviews with nearly 100 girls between the ages of seven and eighteen at a private girls' school in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1986 - 1990. The goal of this Harvard project was to explore girls' psychological journey from childhood to adolescence. The researchers began with a more traditional approach, separating the girls into an experimental group (using ...

Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls Anger

3 reviews
Lyn Mikel Brown

Harvard University Press, 1999

Must Read
As more and more regressive books about girls' meanness to other girls are being published, readers shouldn't forget about this book. To her credit, this author is a distinguished researcher and not just another journalis with a neat idea. Also to her credit is that the research is not just about upper class white girls at exclusive schools, but is about working class girls as well as suburban ...

Women's Studies Quarterly (91:1-2): Women, Girls and the Culture of Education (Women's Studies Quarterly)

The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000

This issue of Women's Studies Quarterly lays some of the groundwork for identifying issues key to the development of a feminist precollegiate education for girls and sheds a fresh light on persistent educational concerns of adult women.