Spectacular girls: media fascination and celebrity culture

Introduction: finding alternative girlhoods

Pint-sized and precocious: the girl star in film history

"It's like floating" or battling the world: mass magazine cover girls

What is there to talk about? twenty-first-century girl films

"I'm not changing my hair": Venus Williams and live tv's racialized struggle over athletic girlhood

Sakia Gunn is a girl: queer African American girlhood in local and alternative media

"Sometimes I say cuss words in my head": the complexity of third-grade media analysis

Conclusion: girlhood rethought.