Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945-1968

by Susan Weiner

Book Overview

As the postwar mass media in France imagined her, the teenage girl was no longer a demure and daughterly jeune fille. Instead, she was an enfant terrible, a "bad girl"--implying that she was unapologetically and unsentimentally no longer a virgin. Focusing on the role of gender in representations of youth in post-World War II France, Susan Weiner traces how, after 1945, young men and women came to symbolize different aspects of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801865395
• ISBN13: 9780801865398
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"