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    Teen girls, sexual double standards and ‘sexting’: Gendered value in digital image exchange
    with Sonia Livingstone, Rosalind Gill, and Jessica Ringrose
    Feminist Theory 14 (3): 305-323. 2013.
    This article explores gender inequities and sexual double standards in teens’ digital image exchange, drawing on a UK qualitative research project on youth ‘sexting’. We develop a critique of ‘postfeminist’ media cultures, suggesting teen ‘sexting’ presents specific age and gender related contradictions: teen girls are called upon to produce particular forms of ‘sexy’ self display, yet face legal repercussions, moral condemnation and ‘slut shaming’ when they do so. We examine the production/circ…Read more
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    ‘We can Get Everything We Want if We Try Hard’: Young People, Celebrity, Hard Work
    with Heather Mendick and Kim Allen
    British Journal of Educational Studies 63 (2): 161-178. 2015.