Female ways of representation in the teen chick lits: A study around the princess diaries Formas de representação feminina nos teen chick lits: Um estudo em torno d’o diário da princesa
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2017
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Comunicacao Midia e Consumo
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Machado A.R.
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© 2017, Superior School of Advertising and Marketing. All rights reserved.This paper deals with female ways of representation, which appear in the contemporaneity, in books aiming towards the teenage audience, as it is going to occur in The Princess Diaries (2000), by Meg Cabot, for example. In this novel, we can observe the construction and the intensification around the ideal standard of beauty and behavior, which can generate issues around gender, body, and sexuality when they try to establish stigmatized standards, especially for girls under development. The idea is to ultimately bring to light the discussion around a kind of literature labeled as teen chick lit (mass literature aimed at teen female audience). Supposedly, this literature is linked to some assumptions related to the third-wave feminism and to the cultural industry which, insidiously, have conducted to the female empowerment.