The focus of the essay is the well known (and worn) stereotype of the Jewish American Princess or JAP. Spoiled, frigid, loud, defiant, the JAP refuses to behave in civilized ways even as she constantly transgresses the boundaries of civilized social spaces. Both an intimate insider, and an eternal outsider, the JAP is a boundary figure whose presence draws and redraws myths of assimilative ideals and citizenship rights in American culture. The complexity of these social relations, their apparent contradictions, and the possibilities they may offer for agency and resistance in both 'real' and fictive contexts are explored through close examinations of four high profile JAPS—Cher Horowitz of the film Clueless, Monica Lewinsky, Jessica Stein of the film Kissing Jessica Stein, and Lizzie Grubman.
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In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 33–54 (22 total)
Delphine Letort
The controversies triggered by the Netflix adaptation of Jay Asher’s young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why (2007) have focused on suicide and downplayed discussions of rape as a central plot device. Making use of stereotypical characters (such as the cheerleader and the jock) and archetypal setting (including the high school), 13 Reasons Why delves into the reassuring world of the suburban town; it deals ambiguously with the entwined notions of gender and power encapsulated in the teenpic genre. A detailed analysis of the series indeed reveals that its causative narrative reinforces the rape myth by putting the blame on girls for events that happen to them. In this article I explore the tensions of a TV series that endorses the rape myth through the entertaining frame of the teenpic.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jul 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 17–31 (15 total)
Tehmina Pirzada
violence. Instead, she chooses peace, love, logic, and reason as viable tactics to overcome her enemies. These tactics are particularly significant because they not only subvert the platitudinous stereotype about the Muslim community, especially Muslim men
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 88–104 (17 total)
Paula MacDowell
through their media production processes. I believe that if we want to learn more about girls we need to listen to their stories. Additionally, if we want girls to transform gender stereotypes in popular media we need to educate and empower them to create
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 201–216 (16 total)
I’m Not Loud, I’m Outspoken
Narratives of Four Jamaican Girls’ Identity and Academic Success
Rowena Linton and Lorna McLean
schooling for black students. While attempts have been made to eliminate these problems institutionally, some black female students, as we shall see, have taken matters into their own hands so as to defy stereotypes, and have, instead, excelled academically
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 71–88 (18 total)
Claudia Mitchell
. The exploration of how tweens construct their own digital identities that challenge the stereotypical media portrayals of girlhood and the investigation of the relationship for tween girls between sexting and sexual agency expand on crucial areas in
“Farmers Don't Dance”
The Construction of Gender in a Rural Scottish School
Fiona G. Menzies and Ninetta Santoro
, therefore, he considers her to be “more of a boy.” Furthermore, she plays rugby, is physically strong, and does not mind getting dirty. These attributes are in direct contrast to the stereotypical view of dancers who are seen to be delicate and fragile
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 67–82 (16 total)
From Risk to Resistance
Girls and Technologies of Nonviolence
Laurel Hart
include retraumatization, anonymity, participants’ accessibility to technologies, the perpetuation of stereotypes, and consent in group work. They offer the questions that have emerged in the field, cite experiences that have led to greater understanding
Erin Newcomb
, the princess story subgenre exerts influence at the social and personal levels. Rothschild describes “periods of ‘gender intensification,’ stages in life when the person is more aware of and influenced by traditional gender stereotypes” (6); such
Queering Virginity
From Unruly Girls to Effeminate Boys
Eftihia Mihelakis
virginity” (69). The authors guide us through the “queerness and strangeness of male virginity precisely because it contradicts stereotypes often associated with male sexuality” (78) by exposing instances of Edward’s experiences of erotophobia, hysteria, and