Mean Girls
from Pop DNA Hosted by Rhonda Watts and Erin O'Loughlin
On Wednesdays we wear pink! This month we break down Mean Girls’ Pop DNA, from the literary tradition of social satire in the work of Swift and Thackeray, to the roles of women in comedy and STEM fields, to the film’s place as a link in a long chain of teen comedies. So fetch! Fictional Hangover Podcast Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman Psychology of Mean Girls in adulthood Chicago Reader Mean Girls review Jezebel article on Heathers vs. Mean Girls Bossypants by Tina Fey Yes Please by Amy Poehler Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Internalized Gender Roles affect STEM Performance from the Daily Texan The Media and Women in STEM on the Radical Idea Blog Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Social satire in Vanity Fair (requires a free account to read) Social commentary in Mean Girls Much Ado About Mean Girls by Ian...
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