Femspec Vol 5, Issue 2, 2004 

Editorial Remarks

BATYA WEINBAUM

Criticism

REBECCA C. HARRIS. "The Problematics of Reclaiming the Girlish: The Powerpuff Girls and Girl Power"

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A SPECIAL CANADIAN SECTION: GIRL POWER

DONNA VARGA AND ROXANNE HARDE. "Editors’ Introduction"

ALISON JACQUES. "Lucky Jupiter Meets Your Ruler: Otherwordly Sources of Girl Power in Magazine Horoscopes"

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VICTORIA ANNE NEWSOM. "Young Females as Super Heroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon"

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SHARON ROSS. "Dangerous Demons: Fan Responses to Girls’ Power, Girls’ Bodies, and Girls’ Beauty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

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

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Creative Work

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JUSTIN SCOTT. "The Truth in Dreams"

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Reviews

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

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JOE GEARY. "Young Women (and More) in Anime"

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K.A. LAITY AND WENDY GOLDBERG. "Japanese Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki"

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MARY BETH LONG. "Growing Up to Be Feminists: Reports on Girl Culture"

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AMANDA A. PUTNAM. "Reading Scared: Feminists Confronting Future Feminists"

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M. SEAN SAUNDERS. "Marwen's Web: Living on the Loom of the Mother"

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VANESSA WARNE. "Eyes Shining and Feet Kicking"

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Creative Works

SHARON BLACK. "Stone Dress"
 

CAROLYN GAGE. "The Rules of the Playground: A One-Act Play"

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EDVIGE GIUNTA. "Stories of Sicilian Girls and Dark Play"

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LYN LIFSHIN. "Emily Dickinson"

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ABIGAIL MORRIS. "Girl with the Metal Hair" 

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EMILY SELF. "Language of Paper Dolls"

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KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE. "Runners"

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Film Review

BATYA WEINBAUM. "Summer with the Ghosts"