Queens and Teen Zines: Early Adolescent Females Reading Their Way toward Adulthood

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This article documents the reading of teen magazines by middle‐class Euro‐American seventh‐grade girls. Examining the reading of teen zines as a literacy event provides an opportunity to explore how the girls perceive and construct their social roles and relationships as they enter a new cultural scene, the junior high school. Documenting this particular reading practice provides a window onto the complex social negotiations in operation as early adolescent females use literacy to shape emerging social roles. This study holds implications for literacy pedagogy that considers how textual representations serve to define and con‐strain social roles.

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