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Article Excerpt
Maria Mastronardi. After Ophelia: Popular Culture and Female Adolescence in Crisis. Chicago: University of Illinios Press, in press. Reviewed by Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University.
In After Ophelia: Popular Culture and Female Adolescence in Crisis, Maria Mastronardi examines the "discursive formation of female adolescence" within its socio-historical-political context, focusing on what she calls an "Ophelia discourse" casting female adolescence as crisis. She traces changing intersections among power, gender, discourse, subjectivities, and popular culture that frame what media espouse, create, and reflect as taken-for-granted views of young women's lives. She also shows how these complex discursive relations provide resources for young women and girls (and others) to shape their identities and make sense of their lived experiences. After Ophelia is an exemplary scholarly analysis offering theoretically complex, richly detailed, and eloquent arguments that I can only sketch broadly in the following overview.
To begin, Dr. Mastronardi sets the significance of Ophelia discourse within an array of cultural discourses and practices aligned with self-help,...
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