EDITORIAL REMARKS

   
BATYA WEINBAUM   ix
   

CRITICISM

   

REBECCA C. HARRIS

 

The Problematics of Reclaiming the Girlish: The Powerpuff Girls and Girl Power

1
   

SPECIAL CANADIAN SECTION: GIRL POWER

   

DONNA VARGA ROXANNE HARDE

 

Editors' Introduction 40

CRITICISM

   

ALISON JACQUES

Lucky Jupiter Meets Your Ruler: Otherwordly Sources of Girl Power in Magazine Horoscopes

45

VICTORIA ANNE NEWSOM

 

Young Females as Super Heroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon

57

SHARON ROSS

Dangerous Demons: Fan Responses to Girls' Power, Girls' Bodies, and Girls' Beauty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

82

DOUGLAS THORPE

Girl Power and the Discourse of Aging: the Example of Ursula K. Le Guin

101
     
CREATIVE WORK    

JUSTIN SCOTT

 

The Truth in Dreams 121
   

REVIEWS

   

SHERYL CURTIS

Canadian Girl Power: Young Women Save the Day, Happily-Ever-After-Ending Unnecessary

130

JOE GEARY

 

Young Women (and More) in Anime

135

K.A. LAITY WENDY GOLDBERG

 

Japanese Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki

140

MARY BETH LONG

Growing Up to Be Feminists: Reports on Girl Culture

143

AMANDA A. PUTNAM

Reading Scared: Feminists Confronting Future Feminists

147

M. SEAN SAUNDERS

 

Marwen's Web: Living on the Loom of the Mother

151

VANESSA WARNE

Eyes Shining and Feet Kicking 159

FROM THE GENERAL FEMSPEC HOPPER

   
   

CREATIVE WORKS

   

SHARON BLACK

Stone Dress 163

CAROLYN GAGE

The Rules of the Playground:A One-Act Play

165

EDVIGE GIUNTA

"Stories of Sicilian Girls" and "Dark Play"

199

LYN LIFSHIN

Emily Dickinson 203

ABIGAIL MORRIS

Girl with the Metal Hair 204

EMILY SELF

Language of Paper Dolls 207

KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE

Runners 209

FILM REVIEW 

   
BATYA WEINBAUM Summer with the Ghosts 210