Publications

Publication details [#49880]

Mazzarella, Sharon R. and Norma O. Pecora. 2007. Girls in Crisis: Newspaper Coverage of Adolescent Girls. Journal of Communication Inquiry 31 (1) : 6–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | agency | girls' language | newspaper report | problem solving

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that the mid- to late 1990s U.S. newspapers' construction of adolescent girls as weak and vulnerable denied them any type of agency and advocated adult intervention in order to save these 'problematic' girls in crisis.