Seven Going on Seventeen Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood

«Just when we thought everything had been written about tween girls, Mitchell and Reid-Walsh prove us wrong with a stunning collection brimming with accessible and original interpretations of early puberty, popularity, hair, girls' magazines, Hello Kitty, and more. Not all is pink and perky in the globalized network of tween markets and discourses according to the international contributors. The chapters also offer a useful range of methodological approaches to studying and analyzing tween girls.» (Nancy Lesko, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University)

The Editors: Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is the co-author and co-editor of a number of books including That’s funny you don’t look like a teacher: Interrogating Images of Identity in Popular Culture (with S. Weber, 1995); Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia (with S. Weber, 1999); Researching Children’s Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood (2002); Just Who Do We Think We Are? Methodologies for Autobiography and Self-Study in Teaching (with S. Weber and K. O’Reilly-Scanlon, 2005).
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh received her Ph.D. from McGill University in the Department of English specializing in children’s literature and in women writers of the late eighteenth century. She teaches at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. She is co-author with Claudia Mitchell of Researching Children’s Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood (2002).