Spectacular girls [electronic resource] : media fascination and celebrity culture / Sarah Projansky.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: finding alternative girlhoods -- Pint-sized and precocious: the girl star in film history -- "It's like floating" or battling the world: mass magazine cover girls -- What is there to talk about? twenty-first-century girl films -- "I'm not changing my hair": Venus Williams and live tv's racialized struggle over athletic girlhood -- Sakia Gunn is a girl: queer African American girlhood in local and alternative media -- "Sometimes I say cuss words in my head": the complexity of third-grade media analysis -- Conclusion: girlhood rethought.

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