Reading girls reading pleasure : reading, adolescence and femininity

This thesis is concerned with the reading girl and the potential pleasures and transgressions she experiences through popular fiction. Throughout modernity, the western bourgeois girl has been directed towards texts that both validate proper, and caution against improper, forms of femininity. This p...

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Main Author: Armstrong, Nancy Jane
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/661