TY - BOOK AU - D'Amico,LuElla AU - Daly-Galeano,Marlowe AU - Lupold,Eva AU - Farnan,Christiane E. AU - Gray,Paige AU - Cornelius,Michael G. AU - Cocca,Carolyn AU - Bogarosh,Nichole AU - Simon,Linda AU - Friddle,Megan E. TI - Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture T2 - Children and Youth in Popular Culture Series SN - 9781498517645 AV - PS374.C454G57 2016 U1 - 813.009352342 PY - 2016/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic KW - Girls - Books and reading - United States - History - 21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Louisa May Alcott's Theater of Time -- Chapter Two: Queering the Katy Series -- Chapter Three: Working Girl -- Chapter Four: A Spectacle of Girls -- Chapter Five: Nancy Drew's Shadow -- Chapter Six: The Bob-Whites of the Belden-Wheeler Detective Agency -- Chapter Seven: Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden -- Chapter Eight: Cherry Ames -- Chapter Nine: From Betsy-Tacy to the Blog -- Chapter Ten: "Girl-Sized Views" of History -- Chapter Eleven: I Like Sports and You Like Clothes, But We Both Love Babies! -- Chapter Twelve: Fancy Nancy -- Chapter Thirteen: Beyond Cruel -- Chapter Fourteen: Growing Up in the Twenty-First Century -- Index -- About the Contributors N2 - This collection explores the influence of girls' series books on popular American culture and girls' everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books' messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4458015 ER -