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Generation X, Generation Y, post-boomers, Border Youth, slackers. Marketing mandarins and cultural theorists alike have invented names and identified characteristics of the generation of youth who just cannot be bothered.1 I identify a variation on the theme, a short-lived phenomenon lounging on the millennial cusp, born out of unique conditions within the culture and the industry that produced her—the super slacker girl.
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Paule, M. (2007). Super Slacker Girls: Dropping Out but Divinely Inspired. In: Inness, S.A. (eds) Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08421-7_6
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