American Girls in Popular Media

Stella A. Ress

doi:10.5771/9781666946208

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Copyright year: 2025
Publication date: 15.02.2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4619-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4620-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 154
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Methodology No access
2. Where Are the Girls?: The History of Keeping Quiet No access
3. Notes No access
1. Boys Will Be Boys?: Male Children and Advertisements No access
2. Growing Power: The Cultural Influence of Boys in Popular Culture No access
3. Dying to Portray Themselves: Little Girls in Print and on the Stage No access
4. Hiding in Plain Site, Part I: The Bateman Sisters No access
5. Little Women: Mary Pickford, Lotta Crabtree, and Baby Girls No access
6. Hiding in Plain Site, Part II: Lita Grey No access
7. Conclusion and a Hint at What Is to Come No access
8. Notes No access
1. Coming into Their Own: A Brief Black-and-White History of Comic Strips No access
2. From “Pansy” to Pioneer: Annie’s Inauspicious Beginnings No access
3. Redefining the Orphan Trope: Annie, Orphans, and Their “Homes” No access
4. Annie and Redefining the Value of Small Girls No access
5. Annie, the Catalyst of Connection, Transcends the Urban/Rural Divide No access
6. “Folks Were All Folks”: Annie and the Boundaries of Race No access
7. Annie, a Heroine for All Ages No access
8. Annie and Modern Girlhood No access
9. Conclusion and a Hint at What Is to Come No access
10. Notes No access
1. Shirley Temple: The Early Years No access
2. Casting a Psychological Lifeline to the Depression-Era Man No access
3. Temple’s Touch: The Redemptive Power of Temple and Her Films No access
4. Temple and the Depression-Era Family No access
5. Sexualizing Shirley: Temple and the Erotic Male Fantasy No access
6. Temple’s Complicated Legacy, a Woman’s Foe or Feminist? No access
7. (Tap) Dancing around Race: No access
8. Shirley Temple, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, and the Choreography of the Color Line No access
9. Conclusion and a Hint at What Is to Come No access
10. Notes No access
1. On the Air and in Most Homes: The Power of the Airwaves during World War II No access
2. “We Are All in It”: Recognizing Girls’ Work No access
3. Working Girls: Small Girls and Emotional Carework No access
4. Mommy’s Little Helper: Girls, Reproductive Labor, and Work on/in the Home [Front] No access
5. Carework, Reproductive Labor, and Compensation No access
6. Conclusion and a Hint at What Is to Come No access
7. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Primary Sources No access
2. Secondary Sources No access
Index No access Pages 149 - 152
About the Author No access Pages 153 - 154