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Feminine Beauty Ideal
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gender identity formation
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Girl Friends
girls
Half Blood Prince
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Hope Chest
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magazine
media influence research
Nast Publications
Party Games
popular culture history
Pottery Barn
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Real Girl
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seventeen
Seventeen Magazine
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Sterling Silver
Teen Age Girls
Teen Magazine
teen magazine cultural impact
Teen Shops
Teen Vogue
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Walter Annenberg
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Product details
- ISBN 9781598745047
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Founded in 1944 by Helen Valentine, Seventeen magazine was the first modern “teen magazine.” An immediate success, it became iconic in establishing the tastes and behaviors of successive generation of teen girls covering the last half of the 20th century. Kelley Massoni has written the first cultural history of the origins of Seventeen and its role in shaping the modern teen girl ideal. Using content analysis, interviews, letters, oral histories, and promotional materials, Massoni is able to show how Seventeen helped create the modern concept of “teenager.” The early Seventeen provided a generation of thinking young women with information on citizenship and clothing, politics and popularity, adult occupations and adolescent preoccupations, until economic and social forces converged to reshape the magazine toward teen consumerism. A chapter on the 21st century Seventeen brings the story to the present. Fashioning Teenagers will be of interest to students of popular culture, sociology, gender studies, mass media, journalism, business, and American studies.
Kelley Massoni, Ph.D., is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Kansas. Her long-standing research program on Seventeen magazine has resulted in articles in Gender & Society and Journal of American Culture.
