| Description |
xxi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Mediated youth, 1555-1814 ; vol. 18 |
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Mediated youth ; v. 18
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| Contents |
The princess and the teen witch: fantasies of the essential self / Ilana Nash -- Applying for the position of princess: race, labor, and the privileging of whiteness in the Disney princess line / Megan Condis -- Ghetto princes, pretty boys, and handsome slackers: masculinity, race and the Disney princes / Guillermo Avila-Saavedra -- Rescue the princess: the videogame princess as prize, parody, and protagonist / Sara M. Grimes -- Playing to belong: princesses and peer cultures in preschool / Karen Wolhwend -- Mono- or multi-culturalism: girls around the world interpret non-western Disney princesses / Diana Natasia and Charu Uppal -- Princess culture in Qatar: exploring princess media narratives in the lives of Arab female youth / Kirsten Pike -- Blue bloods, movie queens, and Jane Does: or how princess culture, American film, and girl fandom came together in the 1910s / Diana Anselmo-Sequeira -- JAPpy: portraits of Canadian girls mediating the Jewish American princess and identity / Rebecca Starkman -- If I were a belle: performers' negotiations of feminism, gender, and race in princess culture / Rebecca C. Hains -- Princess Sissi of Austria: image, reality, and transformation / Phyllis S. Zrzavy and Helfried C. Zrzavy -- Dedicated to princesses: the marriage market and the royal revelations of Ancien Régime fairy tales / Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario |
| Summary |
Princesses today are significant figures in girls' culture in the United States and around the world. Although the reign of girls' princess culture has generated intense debate, this anthology is the first to bring together international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the multitude of princess cultures, continuously redrawn and recast by grownups and girls from the Ancien Régime to the New Millennium. Essays critically examine the gendered, racialized, classed, and ethnic meanings of royal figures and fairytale and pop culture princesses inscribed in folk tales, movies, cartoons, video games, dolls, and imitated in play and performance. Focusing on the representation and reception of the princess, this collection sheds new light on the position of princess cultures mediating the lives, imaginations, and identities of girls from toddlers to teenagers -- and beyond.--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Girls -- Psychology.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Princesses.
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| Author |
Forman-Brunell, Miriam, 1955- editor
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Hains, Rebecca C., 1976- editor
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| LC no. |
2014000841 |
| ISBN |
9781433120626 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1433120623 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9781433120619 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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1433120615 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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