Reading celebrities/narrating selves: 'tween' girls, Miley Cyrus and the good/bad girl binary

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Reading celebrities/narrating selves: 'tween' girls, Miley Cyrus and the good/bad girl binary

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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Celebrities feature prominently in the media and popular cultural landscape of ‘tween’-aged girls. While there has been much speculation about the potential influence of celebrities such as Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Hudgens on ‘tween’ girls, particularly with respect to ‘growing up too fast’ and becoming ‘sexy too soon’, research with tweens is lacking. This paper draws on material from a research project that explores the ways in which some preteen girls in two cities ...

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Research paper

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Journal article

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2015

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Vares T / Jackson S

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17805

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tweens / preteen girls / sexualisation / Miley Cyrus / celebrities / Language, Communication and Culture / Cultural Studies / Culture, Gender, Sexuality / Language, communication and culture / Cultural studies / Screen and media culture / Globalisation and culture

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