Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture is the first anthology devoted
specifically to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach it
includes analyses of girls' media representations media consumption and media production. The
book responds to criticisms of previous research in the field by including studies of girls who
are not white middle-class heterosexual or Western while also including historical
research. Approaching girlhood media and methodology broadly Mediated Girlhoods contains
studies of previously unexplored topics such as feminist themes in teen magazines girlmade
memory books country girlhoods girls' self-branding on YouTube and the surveillance of girls
via new media technologies. The volume serves as a companion to Mediated Boyhoods: Boys Teens
and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture edited by Annette Wannamaker.
