Document Type
Article
Abstract
In this paper, I explore how Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga employs a form of girl sexual citizenship that recognizes girls as sexualized, but maintains unspoken structures of compulsory heterosexuality, regressive gender norms, and hyperconsumerism in order to police girls as a protection of patriarchy.
Recommended Citation
Gulliford, Caitlin, "Girl Empowerment and Unspoken Discourses on Girl Sexuality in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga" (2009). Honors College Theses. 303.
https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/honorscollege_theses/303
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