It's A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of the Girl's Tween Market

A few years of research, thoughts and adjustments that all led to a completed film which, framed by the structure of a faux interactive website for tween girls, looks closely, and critically, at the tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeon's tween queens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

ivillage has a tween category



For some reason it just struck me as odd that ivillage has a tween section now. It feels so official. So concrete. Like if ivillage has a tween section then that's that. The categories go like this: Trying to Conceive, Pregnancy, Newborn, Baby, Toddler/ Preschooler, Grade-Schooler, Tween, Teen. If you have a question about parenting click on one of the links. Tween is now an official choice.

hmm...

Sample articles on ivillage. In case this rant is of any interest to you.

Is your tween ready to babysit?
The AgebyAge Guide to Disney World
Helping Your Daughter Not Hate Her Body
The 5 Secrets of Raising Healthy Eaters
Getting Preteens to Do Their Chores
Which Oscar Nominated Films is your child ready for?
When do children lose their baby teeth?
Tale of the Tickets: A guide to family movies
Sexual Harassment in Schools Is Not "Routine Adolescence"
Middle School Crisis
Are We Labeling Our Kids Instead of Understanding Them?
Why Janie Can't Engineer
Girls' Cliques: What Role Does Your Daughter Play?
A Clique First-Aid Kit
Teasing, Gossiping and Reputations
Generation Zen: Yoga for Youngsters

3 Comments:

At 7:40 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shannon, I would love to send you an email with a few questions I have about a project I'm doing.

Please contact me at twoknives@twoknives.net

Thanks --

Lisa

 
At 3:54 PM, Blogger fstopper said...

The links are not working for me :-(. Glad your project is going so well!

 
At 7:40 AM, Blogger silvashan said...

Thanks for the heads up. So weird, it goes through on mine. Hopefully not everyone is running into this.

To others - If anyone is reading this and is running into the same linking problem let me know. Thanks!

Shannon

 

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