This article argues that postwar Seventeen magazine, a publication deeply invested in enforcing heteronormativity and conventional models of girlhood and womanhood, was in fact a more complex and multivocal serial text whose editors actively sought out, cultivated, and published girls’ creative and intellectual work. Seventeen's teen-authored “Curl Up and Read” book review columns, published from 1958 through 1969, are examples of girls’ creative intellectual labor, introducing Seventeen's readers to fiction and nonfiction which ranged beyond the emerging “young-adult” literature of the period. Written by young people – including thirteen-year-old Eve Kosofsky (later Sedgwick) – who perceived Seventeen to be an important publication venue for critical work, the “Curl Up and Read” columns are literary products in their own right, not simply juvenilia. Seventeen provided these young authors the opportunity to publish their work in a forum which offered girl readers and writers opportunities for intellectual development and community.

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“一个朋友、一个灵活的头脑和一本书”：1958-1969 年《十七》杂志的女孩文学批评

本文认为战后十七杂志是一本致力于推行异性恋和传统的少女和女性模式的出版物，实际上是一个更复杂和多声部的连续文本，其编辑积极寻找、培养和出版女孩的创造性和智力作品。十七从 1958 年到 1969 年出版的青少年撰写的“Curl Up and Read”书评专栏是女孩创造性智力劳动的例子，介绍十七的读者对小说和非小说类的阅读范围超出了这一时期新兴的“青年”文学。由年轻人撰写——包括 13 岁的 Eve Kosofsky（后来的 Sedgwick）——他们认为十七作为批判性作品的重要出版场所，“Curl Up and Read”栏目本身就是文学产品，而不仅仅是青少年。十七为这些年轻作家提供了在一个论坛上发表他们的作品的机会，该论坛为女性读者和作家提供了智力发展和社区的机会。