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More amusing but in no way justifiable annotations in library books:

I'm not sure what I like most, the first writer's apparent belief that the chapter is arguing that it's a good thing that girls' comics promote this, or the second writer's smug assertion that it's a perfectly good solution if you're lucky enough to find the right knight. I wonder if she (I assume) would say the same now? The book is Gender and Generation, edited by Angela McRobbie and Mica Nava, and the chapter is 'Some Day my Prince Will Come: Young Girls and the Preparation for Adolescent Sexuality' by Valerie Walkerdine. The books from the mid 1980s, and it's interesting to see what's changed in girlhood studies since then.
Also, I bought this badge in Stockholm:

Yay! I don't really know what it actually means (my friend thought that it was something about a grand slam), but to me it just means that I have a klubb. A club of FIRE and GRAPES, and a WEIRD BUTTON THING.
I'm not sure what I like most, the first writer's apparent belief that the chapter is arguing that it's a good thing that girls' comics promote this, or the second writer's smug assertion that it's a perfectly good solution if you're lucky enough to find the right knight. I wonder if she (I assume) would say the same now? The book is Gender and Generation, edited by Angela McRobbie and Mica Nava, and the chapter is 'Some Day my Prince Will Come: Young Girls and the Preparation for Adolescent Sexuality' by Valerie Walkerdine. The books from the mid 1980s, and it's interesting to see what's changed in girlhood studies since then.
Also, I bought this badge in Stockholm:
Yay! I don't really know what it actually means (my friend thought that it was something about a grand slam), but to me it just means that I have a klubb. A club of FIRE and GRAPES, and a WEIRD BUTTON THING.
Girls' comics! yay!
Date: 2009-02-17 12:21 pm (UTC)I would suspect that the majority of girls' comics, apart from specific romance titles, would fall outside the the constraints she sets out above. There are other constraints in terms of what futures the girl characters see for themselves - being nurses rather than doctors, for instance - but agency on the part of the girl characters is a big part of those comics, necessarily, given the deliberate and overwhelming lack of male characters in most stories.
I did like the writing thouhg
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Date: 2009-02-17 03:37 pm (UTC)(Having said that, I find studying from annotated books absolutely enraging. It drove my roommate crazy that I would spend ages looking for unmarked used textbooks instead of just grabbing a book and getting in line)
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Date: 2009-02-17 08:13 pm (UTC)Is there an arcane initiation ritual?
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