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Publication details [#46252]

Hains, Rebecca C. 2007. Inventing the Teenage Girl: The Construction of Female Identity in Nickelodeon's My Life as a Teenage Robot. Popular Communication 5 (3) : 191–213.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the discourse of the popular cartoon among pre-adolescent girls "My Life as a Teenage Robot", on items as girl power and identity construction, focusing on the key theme that strength, agency, and normative femininity cannot be combined by one and the same individual.