Spectacular Girls by Sarah Projansky - 9780814724811

Spectacular GirlsMedia Fascination and Celebrity Culture\nAuthor(s): Sarah Projansky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814724811, 978-0814724811\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association \n As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look. Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projanskyuses a queer, anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods in contemporary popular [url] book addresses two key themes: simultaneous adoration and disdain for girls and the pervasiveness of whiteness and heteronormativity. While acknowledging this context, Projansky pushes past the dichotomy of the \""can-do\"" girl who has the world at her feet and the troubled girl who n.