Girls' Media in the Women's Liberation Era

<p><i>Girls’ Media in the Women’s Liberation Era </i>is a critical analysis and cultural history of popular girls’ media narratives produced in the United States between 1968 and 1980—the era of the second-wave feminist movement—and girls’ responses to those narratives.</p><p>Grounded in exhaustive archival research and close analysis of such hits as <em>The Brady Bunch</em> and <em>Family</em> the book highlights how mainstream media negotiated feminist themes and how liberation-era girls “talked back”—especially through letters opinion essays interviews and diaries—on a range of media narratives and feminist issues thus demonstrating their crucial involvement in the women’s movement and its wider political struggle.</p><p><i>Girls’ Media in the Women’s Liberation Era </i>is a key text for both students and researchers in women’s and gender studies media studies children’s media American studies cultural studies and sociology.</p>