This paper discusses the various ways in which adolescent girls can be affected by images in the media. This seven page paper has seven sources listed in the bibliography.
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videos, magazines and other print media, and now, the internet. We delude our selves, when we say that, we are not influenced by media: it comes in with the
oxygen and leaves with the Co2. Yet of all those under the "spell" of the media, it appears that adolescent girls are the most vulnerable. Physical appearance The authors,
Brown and Gillignan, in their book, Meeting at the Crossroads: Womens Psychology and Girls Development have labeled this particular time in a young girls life as a troubled crossing" (ii).
Girls on the other hand, are prone to sing out, "they just wanna have fun." So naturally we can conclude that the truth is somewhere in between. The
three "cs" are the name of the game in this area: clothes, cosmetics and consumption. Most adolescent girls will have access to print media, which assume the old
societal role of "advice givers," this time with a price tag attached. Clothes run the gamut of things used as "body coverings," to costumes. Clothes choices can imply
status, and acceptability of peers. Each middle size school and community will have their own words for the group(s) that is "in," and the group(s) that are "out."
In our parents time it may have been: the brains, the geeks and the jocks. In a 1999 report entitled, "Girls, media, and the negotiation of sexuality: A study
of race, class, and gender in adolescent peer group, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, reports, the two schools she studied labeled themselves, "preps," "the regulars," and "gangstas," with a few wanna-bees
on the outside of each group, and one or two girls who could "travel" back and forth between groups (58). The patterns of each of these groups and their concerns