Abstract
From Valley of the Dolls to Heathers to Mean Girls, America’s young women have been subjected to countless messages from popular culture about who they are and who they should be. You have to be skinny; you have to be white; you have to be popular; you have to be blonde. Existing outside these parameters is, to quote Mean Girls, “social suicide.” Associating with the right people is a must as well.
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Duncan, A. (2017). Mean Girls, Interrupted. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hensley, B.O., Braniger, C.J., Jennings, M.E. (eds) Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies In Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-005-9_20
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