TY - BOOK AU - Currie,Dawn TI - Girl talk: adolescent magazines and their readers SN - 0802044158 (bound) AV - PN4878 .C87 1999 U1 - 051/.0835/2 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Youths' periodicals KW - United States KW - Women's periodicals, American KW - Teenage girls KW - Books and reading KW - Sex role in mass media N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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.' ER -