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Out of Reach - The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature (Paperback)
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Out of Reach - The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature
traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls' series
in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does
the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of
Othered girls? How does the trope retain its power through cultural
shifts? Drawing from six popular girls' series that span the
twentieth century, Kate G. Harper explores the role of girls'
series in constructing a narrow ideal of girlhood, one that is out
of reach for the average American girl reader. Girls' series reveal
how, over time, the ideal girl trope strengthens and becomes
naturalized through constant reiteration. From the transitional
girl at the turn of the century in Dorothy Dale to the "liberated"
romantic of Sweet Valley High, these texts provide girls with an
appealing model of girlhood, urging all girls to aspire to the
unattainable ideal. Out of Reach illuminates the ways in which the
ideal girl trope accommodates social changes, taking in that which
makes it stronger and further solidifying its core.
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