Female ways of representation in the teen chick lits: a study around The Princess Diaries
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Teen chick lit, Gender, Third-wave feminism, Female empowermentAbstract
This paper deals with female ways of representation, which appear in the contemporaneity, in books turned to teenager audience, as it is going to occur in The Princess Diaries (2000), by Meg Cabot, for example. In this novel, we can observe the construction and the intensification around the ideal pattern of beauty and behavior, what are opened for issues around gender, body, and sexuality when they try to stablish stigmatized patterns, moreover, for girls under development. The idea is, at last, to bring to light the discussion around a kind of literature labeled by teen chick lit (mass literature aimed at teen female audience). Supposedly, this literature is linked to some assumptions related to the third-wave feminism and to the cultural industry which, insidiously, have conducted to the female empowerment.Downloads
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