Teen Spirit: Nancy Drew and others are used by author Ilana Nash in her book, "
American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture", from Indiana University Press to show, by "
illuminating oppressive patterns of representation of teenage girls in American movies, plays, novels and TV and radio shows from 1930 to 1965", a mass culture campaign intent on maintaining "
patriarchal hegemony" ... sounds like serious stuff ... might be too much for me but maybe you want to learn more ... and you can in
this review ... or if you buy and read
the book ...
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