From the days of the penny press to the contemporary world of
social media, journalistic accounts of teen girls in trouble have
been a mainstay of the U.S. news media. Often the stories represent
these girls as either victims or whores (and sometimes both), using
journalistic storytelling devices and news-gathering practices that
question girls' ability to perform femininity properly, especially
as they act in public recreational space. These media accounts of
supposed misbehavior can lead to moral panics that then further
silence the voices of teenagers and young women.
In From the Dance Hall to Facebook, Shayla Thiel-Stern takes a
close look at several historical snapshots, including working-class
girls in dance halls of the early 1900s; girls' track and field
teams in the 1920s to 1940s; Elvis Presley fans in the mid-1950s;
punk rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and girls using the
Internet in the early twenty-first century. In each case, issues of
gender, socioeconomic status, and race are explored within their
historical context. The book argues that by marginalizing and
stereotyping teen girls over the past century, mass media have
perpetuated a pattern of gendered crisis that ultimately limits the
cultural and political power of the young women it covers.
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