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`Good Girls go to Heaven; Bad Girls...' Learn to be Good: Quizzes in American and Brazilian Teenage Girls' Magazines

dc.contributor.authorOstermann, Anaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKeller-Cohen, Deborahen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-13T19:32:46Z
dc.date.available2010-04-13T19:32:46Z
dc.date.issued1998en_US
dc.identifier.citationOstermann, Ana; Keller-Cohen, Deborah (1998). "`Good Girls go to Heaven; Bad Girls...' Learn to be Good: Quizzes in American and Brazilian Teenage Girls' Magazines." Discourse & Society 4(9): 531-558. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67516>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0957-9265en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67516
dc.description.abstractThis article examines 15 quizzes in teenage girls' magazines: the American `Teen, Seventeen and Sassy, and the Brazilian Capricho, over the period 1994-5. It argues that the genre quiz, an apparently playful feature in these magazines, is not as harmless as it appears to be. In addition to encouraging girls towards self-scrutiny, quizzes work as `disciplinary instruments', aiming at the heterosexist socialization of teenage girls. Analysis of the macro-structure of the quizzes reveals a problem-solution structure is used to accomplish this. The producers of these texts judge, evaluate, and classify girls as either `good' or `bad', and tend to prescribe and proscribe types of behavior from a heterosexist perspective. The high informality and ludic appearance of quizzes, therefore, disguise what seems to be an important agenda: to discipline girls to be `good'.en_US
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dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.subject.otherCritical Discourse Analysisen_US
dc.subject.otherHeterosexist Discourseen_US
dc.subject.otherMedia Discourseen_US
dc.subject.otherQuizen_US
dc.subject.otherSexist Discourseen_US
dc.subject.otherSocializationen_US
dc.subject.otherTeenage Girls' Magazinesen_US
dc.title`Good Girls go to Heaven; Bad Girls...' Learn to be Good: Quizzes in American and Brazilian Teenage Girls' Magazinesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelCommunicationsen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelLinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanitiesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67516/2/10.1177_0957926598009004006.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0957926598009004006en_US
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