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  Likes this. Like me?

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  Alyssa Vetro Independent

  February 17, 2011

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  Likes this. Like me? body image brand Facebook girls internet sex social media Curator's Note   This is a good one… no, this one! No. I look fat. God, if a profile picture ever screamed, “Loser.” But wait, I look totally hot in this one! Bingo.    Al ...
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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 11, 2012

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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up TV Pilots Shake It Up performance girls Disney dance class Curator's Note In the first few minutes of the pilot for Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, lead characters, Rock ...
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  Is the "blogging teen girl" a new TV trope?

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  Amy Hasinoff McGill University

  November 29, 2012

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  Is the "blogging teen girl" a new TV trope? Teen TV and New Media online safety girls' media production girls blogging Awkward Curator's Note In many ways, MTV’s    Awkward is a conventional female-centered teen comedy program. Jenna i ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...
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  A Meaning of Minority in Girls

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  Ashar Foley SUNY Stony Brook

  January 08, 2013

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  A Meaning of Minority in Girls minority Lena Dunham girls accident Curator's Note In a 2012 Fresh Air interview, Girls creator Lena Dunham explained the show's focus on four white, middle-class girls as "an accident," a product of writ ...
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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

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  an easy word to toss around and is somewhat unhelpful until we begin to break it down:  a sense of ...
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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  January 14, 2013

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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences irony girls controversy branding audiences Curator's Note From Lena Dunham’s body to the show’s alleged lack of diversity, Girls has garnered much attention for its representational politics. Moreover, Dunham, an ...
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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  January 15, 2013

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  show’s creator, Lena Dunham) proclaims that she’s “the voice of [her] generation…or at least a voice of ...
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  The Penis as Feminist Tool in 'Girls' and 'Top of the Lake'

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  October 06, 2014

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  The Penis as Feminist Tool in 'Girls' and 'Top of the Lake' cable television girls HBO Jane Campion Lena Dunham nudity Sundance Channel Top of the Lake Curator's Note [NSFW]  From Showtime’s “no limits" to HBO’s bada-bing to ...
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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  January 27, 2016

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  conflicts and prove, at least on Instagram, that their friendship is solid as ever. Her idealized weekend is ... morning the women silently help Marnie clean up from the party. As they wait for their bus, they begin to ...