-"Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and beyond, Girl Culture tackles numerous hot-button issues, including the recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits: body image, peer pressure, cliques, gangs, and plastic surgery are among the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. Comprehensive in its coverage of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, fashion, literature, film, in-group rituals and hot-button issues that shape--and are shaped by--girl culture, this two-volime resource will help students, educators, and others better understand the ongoing interplay between girls and mainstream culture." —Family Therapy

-"[S]ome reference books are still a necessary and valuable contribution to certain fields of study, especially emerging ones. This is the case with Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia....The references make this a worthy purchase for academic libraries. Most of the essays cite numerous sources. A separate bibliography section (good for collection development) is also included....[A] serious and scholarly presentation of a rapidly growing field that has been as devalued as girls and their culture have been." —Feminist Collections