Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet.
When Rookie, a now-defunct online magazine for teenage girls, launched in 2011, it created a safe space for young women and girls to express themselves through any medium they wanted and in a myriad of different ways. Thus images of girlhood ceased to be just a mystery for the male gaze/brain to sol...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 732 - 748 |
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