MAZZARELLA.

MAZZARELLA, Sharon R & PECORA, Norma Odom (Eds) Growing Up Girls: Popular agriculture and the Construction of Identity. fresh York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999 240pp $2995 (p)

More and more mass media and popular agriculture is being produced for, about, and on pre-adolescent and adolescent girls than evermore before. The intent of this volume is to help us better understand the webwork relationship between girls and their civilization Informed by a broad range of theoretical perspectives and employing a variety of methodologies, the essays in this collection address the ways mainstream refinement "instructs" girls on how to become a woman--the ways in which the civilization approves of "growing up girls." Specifically, these essays examine the messages mainstream agriculture gives girls about romance, sexuality, life experiences, material substance image, gender and culture identity, and the way girls themselves negotiate these messages.

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