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Images of Teen Girls in MagazinesKudos to The History Center's Paul Miller and Donna Eschenbrenner, who advised on a project done by the women in "Girlstories," a course taught in the Summer College for High School Students at Ithaca College during the summer of 2010. The class studied images of girls and young women in children's literature, film, television, and fiction. This project represents the extension of our inquiry into the area of teen periodicals which we analyzed for both written and visual content. We looked at the articles presented in each text and considered the messages that they sent to young teen readers about self-esteem, healthy relationships, consumerism, and contemporary standards of beauty. We started by examining Nineteenth-Century texts at The History Center, and also viewed copies of the inaugural issues of Seventeen Magazine.
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