{"id":728,"date":"2008-04-03T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2008-04-03T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T01:52:00","slug":"girl-icons-at-bluestockings-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/03\/girl-icons-at-bluestockings-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Icons at Bluestockings Tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R_YYYFTMgcI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/tiujopnqkv8\/s1600-h\/41WrVJxnxQL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R_YYYFTMgcI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/tiujopnqkv8\/s200\/41WrVJxnxQL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Tonight at 7PM, Kathleen Sweeney&#8211;who I enjoyed meeting at WAM! last weekend&#8211;will be reading from her new book, <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age<\/span><\/a> here in NYC at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestockings.com\/\">Bluestockings<\/a>.   Sweeney, a girls studies scholar, charts the pantheon of new girl icons that have surfaced in the past 15 years.  From the book&#8217;s description:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Maiden USA <\/span>explores images of powerful, contradictory pop culture icons of the past decade, which run the gamut from Mean Girls and their Endangered Victims to Superheroines and Ingenue Goddesses. Are girls of the Title IX generation in need of Internet protection, or are they Supergirls evolving beyond gender stereotypes to rescue us all?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book provides an overview of girl trends since the \u00e2\u20ac\u212290s including the emergence of girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 digital media-making and self-representation venues on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube as the newest wave of Girl Power.  With brainiacs and athletic champions offered as antidotes to mean girls and lolitas, and with the emergence of self-representation venues on the internet, what is the significance of such contradictory imagery for the culture at large? Sweeney will address this question and also show animations created by teenage girls from across the country.  FUN!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 7PM, Kathleen Sweeney&#8211;who I enjoyed meeting at WAM! last weekend&#8211;will be reading from her new book, Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age here in NYC at Bluestockings. Sweeney, a girls studies scholar, charts the pantheon of new girl icons that have surfaced in the past 15 years. From the book&#8217;s description: &#8220;Maiden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,21395],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-girls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}