What is it about?
This book looks at media panics over girls behaviour including girls as too successful, aggressive and sexualised in ways that are threatening boys. The book refutes gender binary logic showing how the media thrives on whipping up moral panics over feminist gains for girls and women.
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Why is it important?
This book spans media studies, sociology, girlhood studies and education to offer a look at girls' experiences of navigating dominant myths about feminist empowerment and girl power.
Perspectives
The book is interdisciplinary using psychosocial theory and methodology to help shed light on girls' experiences of navigating a postfeminist media context including how girls use and produce social media to represent themselves online.
Professor Jessica Ringrose
University College London
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This page is a summary of: Jessica Ringrose, Postfeminist Education? Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling,, Feminism & Psychology, April 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0959353512470374.
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