Banet-Weiser, Sarah (2004) Girls rule!: gender, feminism, and Nickelodeon. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 21 (2). pp. 119-139. ISSN 1529-5036
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Nickelodeon is a powerful commercial cable network of television, internet activities, toy manufacturing, and video production. The network has been recognized by both industry professionals and media scholars for its representation of girls as strong, intelligent lead characters. Focusing on entertainment programs Clarissa Explains It All and As Told by Ginger, as well as on Nickelodeon's non‐fiction children's news program, Nick News, I argue that the media context of girl power, combined with the increasing recognition of adolescent girls as both powerful citizens and consumers, offers what at times looks like a radical gesture in terms of disrupting dominant gender relations. However, we can also read the mainstream embrace of girl power as a restabilization of particular categories of gender, so that this “radical” challenge moves toward the entrenchment of conventional gender relations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsm20/current |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 National Communication Association |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2018 15:51 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2024 17:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89211 |
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