Currie, Dawn,  1948- <br/><br/>
Girl talk :  adolescent magazines and their readers / 
Dawn H. Currie. 
 - Toronto :  University of Toronto Press,  1999. 
 - x, 362 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: 'Girls Doing Girl Things': A Study of Girls Becoming Women ;  Just Looking: Exploring Our Point of Entry ; Materialist Feminism: The Ideology of Women's Magazines ; Materialism Revisited: Doing 'Girl Talk' ; From Text as Specimen to Text as Process: Reading as Everyday Practice ; Teenzine Reading: The Social Life of Texts ; From Pleasure to Knowledge: The Power of the Text ; Doing and Undoing: The Everyday Experience of Subject-ivity ; Calling Cultural Constructions into Question ; Conclusion: Towards a Materialist Analysis of Texts: Reading Sociologically.  App. A: Description of Participants.  App. B 'Counting' Meaning.  App. C Advertisements Used in 'Girl Talk.' 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802044158 (bound) 0802082173 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00550914 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>C98-932362-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Youths' periodicals--United States.<br/>Women's periodicals, American.<br/>Teenage girls--Books and reading.<br/>Sex role in mass media.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN4878  / .C87 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>051/.0835/2