ABSTRACT
Having explored the discourse of successful girls in Chapter 2, this chapter explores how this established narrative of girls' success, power and adaptation relates to constructions of girls' aggression and their capacity to act out, and be direct both verbally and physically. I continue to explore a shift away from constructions of girls as vulnerable victims toward an ever-increasing onslaught of stories about girls' power and powerfulness (Aapola et al., 2005; Projansky, 2007). Here I focus on a related international postfeminist media driven panic over girls as ‘increasingly aggressive’ and mean as well as bad and violent (Gonick, 2004; Batchelor, 2009).
