The Women's Review of Books, November 1st, 1999
Girl talk and Ophelia Speaks are two wildly different books that have at their hearts a shared impulse: to let girls speak for themselves instead of through researchers, sociologists and other assorted adult experts. Dawn Currie, noting that all other scholarly work on women's and teen magazines has been based on researchers' interpretations, sets out to examine how teenage girls, not middle-aged women with Ph.D.s, read Seventeen and its ilk. In an attempt to "differentiate between 'reading as research,' in which the text is a specimen for textual analysis and deconstruction by the academic,...
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