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dc.contributor.authorCosburn, Nicolette.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-21T14:02:37Z
dc.date.available2009-05-21T14:02:37Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-21T14:02:37Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/1423
dc.description.abstractIt has bee1l said that feminism is dead, but in fact feminism is alive in popular cultural fonlls that offer pleasure, style, fUll and advice, as well as political messages that are internalized alld continuously enacted in the lives of North American female youth. This thesis discusses popular feminism with respect to mainstream girls' cultural discourses in music alld magazine reading. Specifically this thesis examines the importance of Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and the Spice Girls, in addition to the numerous girl magazines available on the market today, such as Seventeen and YM. Focusing on the issue of the feminine versus feminist polarity and its importance to girls' culture, this thesis attempts to demonstrate how popular feminism can be used as a mode of empowerment and illustrates the mode of consumption of popular feminist texts that frames female selfimage, attitude, behaviour and speech. Through the employment of popular feminist theories and a discourse alld semiotic analysis of musical lyrics, performance and style, in addition to magazine reading and advertisements, this thesis highlights the use of active media reading and being by girls to gaill an understanding with regards to social positioning and postmodern political identity. More fundamentally, this thesis questions how popular feminism disables, questions and critiques popular ideologies ill a patriarchal society.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectGirls in popular culture.en_US
dc.subjectWomen in popular culture.en_US
dc.titleRevisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /en_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameM.A. Popular Cultureen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPopular Culture Programen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Humanitiesen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-07-30T02:43:03Z


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