@inbook{10.3138/9781442675346.12, ISBN = {9780802082176}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442675346.12}, abstract = {As noted by the girls in chapter 7, society does not offer adolescent girls a sense of belonging through provision of a specific social ‘place.’ In the absence of positive definitions of adolescence, many girls feel that they exist in a state of limbo, ‘between’ childhood and adulthood, with few guidelines or clear boundaries. The absence of positive definitions and sense of social place can make it difficult for girls to find a voice to name their experiences of adolescence. From this perspective teenzines are significant to the process of becoming a woman because they offer a discourse which speaks}, bookauthor = {DAWN H. CURRIE}, booktitle = {Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers}, pages = {247--283}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Calling Cultural Constructions into Question}, year = {1999} }