Socialization of teenage girls through teen-magazine fiction: The making of a new woman or an old lady?

Peirce, Kate

doi:10.1007/bf00289996

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“…18 As they reach adolescence, with intensi®ed gender-related role expectations, girls may encounter greater pressures to comply with the stereotypic role and standards depicted for women. 30,31,34 The changes in the physical body at puberty, the increasing restrictions experienced at home (in comparison with boys) and the con¯ictual demands and social pressures may add to girls' uncontrollable feelings towards life. 3 The induction into the world of dating may increase contacts with boys, who, often being more conservative in sex stereotypes than girls, 29 might inadvertently enhance girls' feminine attributes of compliance, didence and avoidance in dealing with life challenges.…”

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“…21 The expectations and the aspirations to succeed in instrumental achievement drop for adolescent girls, 18,21,29,30 while their sexual identity as a woman becomes more salient and challenged. 25,27,31 Such discontinuity and con¯ictual role demands may increase the uncertainty of adolescent girls in their search for new selfidentities. 27 Greater self-¯uctuation may put adolescent girls at increased risks for subjective distress.…”

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Explaining gender differences in symptoms of subjective distress in young adolescents

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Kaplan

1999

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Explaining gender differences in symptoms of subjective distress in young adolescents

Liu

Kaplan

1999

Stress Med.

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“…Researchers argue women's magazines play a role in the acculturation of women (cf., Durham, 1996;Ferguson, 1983;May, 1988;McCracken, 1993;McRobbie, 1991;Peirce, 1990Peirce, , 1993Peirce, , 1995Steiner, 1995;Wolf, 1991). Our concern is with the acculturating rhetoric of a segment of this industry; namely, magazines aimed at teenaged girls.…”

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“…The five most popular of these are YM (Young and Modern), 'Teen, Seventeen, Glamour, and Mademoiselle; each with over 1.5 million in circulation (Standard Rate and Data, 1995). Ironically, only a few studies attend specifically to magazines directed at this market (Duffy & Gotcher, 1996;Duke, 1995;Evans, Rutberg, Sather, & Turner, 1991;Frazer, 1987;McCracken, 1993;McRobbie, 1991;Peirce, 1990Peirce, , 1993Peirce, , 1995Pool, 1990). Not surprisingly, these studies, like those for their adult counterparts, found that teen magazines work to shape women into enthusiastic consumers who pump money into capitalistic enterprises.…”

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Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette in Teenage Magazines

Garner

Sterk

Adams

1998

Journal of Communication

106

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Expanding on existing research on women's magazines, this essay examines the sexual etiquette developed in advice columns in magazines popular among teenage women. Over a span of 20 years, the advice has changed very little. Serving the rhetorical function of field guides and training manuals, teen magazines limit women's sociality and sexuality within narrowly defined heterosexual norms and practices. The rhetoric of sexual etiquette encourages young women to be sex objects and teachers of interpersonal communication rather than lovers, friends, and partners. Young women are being taught to subordinate self for others and to be contained.

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“…Since then, many studies have focused on the role of women's magazines in the construction of female subjectivity and the way in which women experience their sexuality (Carpenter, 1998(Carpenter, , 2001Currie, 1999Currie, , 2001Jackson, 2005;Kehily, 1999;McRobbie, 1991McRobbie, , 1996Pierce, 1990Pierce, , 1993.…”

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From “Chastity As a Gift” to “Doing It As a Sign of Love”

2012

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This study aims to analyze the media discourse about feminine sexuality produced by Portuguese magazines. Texts about female sexuality published in six types of magazines between 1965 and 2006 were content analyzed. The results showed that Portuguese media's discourse on sexuality is not only becoming more liberal but is also characterized by ambiguity and contradiction. Within a "progressive" discursive framework for sexuality, tensions and double standards for women are still noticeable. The media discourse in Portugal continues to reinforce the established gender hierarchy and inequality in heterosexual relationships and maintain traditional gender roles.Keywords sexuality, gender, women, media, culture, Portugal 2 SAGE Open conducted in the United States using two groups of adolescent girls, showed clear differences in the construction of femininity that was linked to the specific sociocultural characteristics of the two groups. Skeggs (2003, as cited in Jackson & Scott, 2004 added that norms for feminine sexual "decency" are different for each social class: For middleclass women with economic resources, sexual encounters are seen as a means to affirm autonomy, freedom, or status, while the same behavior from lower-class women incites social dislike and pejorative labeling.Despite these macro-and microcultural variations, most cultures endorse different expectations, rules, and values for both genders, and the global tendency is toward the restriction and subordination of female sexuality (Benkert, 2002;Hust et al., 2008).The notion that gender norms for sexuality follow a double standard (Alferes, 1997;Hust et al., 2008;Jackson & Scott, 2004;Nogueira, Saavedra, & Costa, 2008) that encourages women to marry (Cancian & Gordon, 1988;Erel, 2011;Press, 2011) and permits men to have multiple sexual liaisons (Alferes, 1997;Saavedra et al., 2010) is not new. What is perhaps more noticeable is the pervasiveness of these standards in a time of the apparent "liberation"/"banalization" of sexuality, in which several authors have discussed the "sexualization of culture" (Gill, 2008;Ringrose, 2011) and the "hyper-sexualization" of women (Gill, 2008(Gill, , 2010.In fact, although a discourse of apparent liberation and "openness" prevails in popular and media representations, some studies reveal anomalies and contradictions within these discourses (Alferes, 1997;Crawford & Popp, 2003;Jackson & Scott, 2004, 2007. Tolerance of casual and premarital sexual relationships occurs simultaneously with the hope of a serious, loving relationship (Jackson, 2001); tolerance of homosexuality and serial relationships coexists with the reinforcement of heterosexuality and monogamy as an ideal (Harvey & Gill, 2011;Jackson & Scott, 2004). This coexistence of change and continuity is, as suggested by Jackson and Scott (2004), "indicative of a persistent unease about the sexual that sits side by side with an acceptance of greater sexual freedom and diversity" (p. 235).Whereas some authors argue that heterosexual relationships are mo...

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Socialization of teenage girls through teen-magazine fiction: The making of a new woman or an old lady?

Cited by 52 publications

References 9 publications

Explaining gender differences in symptoms of subjective distress in young adolescents

Explaining gender differences in symptoms of subjective distress in young adolescents

Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette in Teenage Magazines

From “Chastity As a Gift” to “Doing It As a Sign of Love”

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