Maiden USA : Girl Icons Come of Age

Acknowledgments vii Prologue ix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. No Secrets, No Taboos: The Wild West of Millennial Girlhood 15 Chapter 3. Lipstick Lolitas: The New Sex Goddesses 43 Chapter 4. Reigning Tweens and Alternative Tweendoms 67 Chapter 5. Mean Girls in Ophelia Land 93 Chapter 6. Out of the Gender Box: Title IX Amazons, Brainiacs and Geek Girls 129 Chapter 7. Supernatural Girls: Witches, Warriors, and Anime 155 Chapter 8. GRRLS versus WOMYN: Generation Blending 175 Chapter 9. The Girl Gaze: Indies, Hollywood, and The Celluloid Ceiling 203 Chapter 10. Girls Make Movies: Out of the Mirror and Through the Lens 225 Chapter 11. Conclusion: iCelebrity and Evolving iCons 247 Appendix: Resource Lists 259 Notes 281 Bibliography 297 Index 311