Within the broad, yet ever increasing issue of "tween" culture are many causes that are co-related. These sources form the foundation as to why children are becoming more and more desensitized to what once would have been considered a "moral standard" for their age sector. In this particular journal article taken from "Signs", Gayle Wald focuses on the cultural construction of female youth with a spotlight on the music industry. She introduces her readers to the world of female rockers and the way in which they display their femininity and "girlhood". This may be Gwen Stefani in her trademark platinum or Courtney Love's torn up baby-doll get up in order to show that acting "like a girl" promotes cultural visibility of all women. With this said, we are led to see Wald's main focal point of this journal: with these female stars promoting female youth subculture, a culturally expressed resistance to patriarchal femininity emerges in trying to universalize ethnocentric terms. The......
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