Publications

Unpacking Logan: The Construction of Masculinity in the American Girl Boy Doll

in The Marketing of Children’s Toys co-authored Jaclyn Griffith (2021)

“Which Vitamins are in the Chocolate Cake? How American Girl Marketing Has Responded to Shifting Discourses About Gender, Sexuality, and Race”

in The Public Historian (2021)

“Pink toenails and princess boys: Contemporary discourses of boys’ gender-fluidity in USA Television news”

in Journal of Children and Media (2018)

"#iammorethanadistraction: Connecting local body politics to a digital feminist movement”

in Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Post-Feminist Media Culture. Edited by Jessalyn Keller and Maureen Ryan. (2018)

Playing with America’s Doll: Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection

Published by Palgrave MacMillan. (2017)

“Moving from Sisterhood to Girl Power"

in APA Handbook on the Psychology of Women.  Edited by Cheryl Travis and Jackie White. (2017)

“GFCFSF: Mothers Challenge Evidence-Based Medicine & the Privitization of Motherhood”

in Mothers and Food. Edited by T. Cassidy and F. Pasche Guignard. (2016)

“Stumping to Girls through Pop Culture: Feminist Interventions to Shape Female Political Leaders”

in Women & Language special issue on women and electoral politics. Vol. 35, 1., pp. 97-116.  Co-authored with J. Schoenberg (2012).

“Using Barbie Stories to Develop an Understanding of Polysemy and Encoding/Decoding”

in Communication Teacher.  (2012)

“Revalorizing Feminine Ways of Knowing: The Challenge to Biomedical Epistemology in an Online Mothers’ Health Community”

in Information, Communication, and Society. (2012)

Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture

Published by Palgrave Macmillan. (2009)