Socialization of teenage girls through teen-magazine fiction: The making of a new woman or an old lady?

Sex Roles ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Peirce
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Teen Magazine

Inhalant Use Is Rising Among Teenage Girls

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
DENISE NAPOLI
Keyword(s):  
Teenage Girls

Gender, Technology and the New Woman

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Grant Allen

This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

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