Following on from our group presentations I looked at shout magazine, this magazine is aimed at young girls from about 12 years old. It has many interviews with pop groups along with posters. It advertises make-up and clothes many of which are affordable, the more expensive clothes were the clothes shown on celebs titled get the best look, I think this encourages young girls to want the more expensive clothes.

There are plenty of advice and problem pages which talks about general problems typical teenage lifestyles such as problems with school, friendships and boyfriends, they discuss the way young girls look and their feelings towards boy, there was only one problem in each of the two magazines I looked at where a young girl had feeling towards another girl, the advice in both magazines were very similar saying to wait until later on in life to deicide weather she was gay as feeling become more clearer over time and not to act any differently. I felt that these articles were pushing the fact that young girls should not have feelings for the same sex

There were a quiz titled helps to find the perfect boyfriend, and another titled sort out a friendship. Which I thought was very miss-leading to young girls who believe these magazines to be the truth when they should just be seen as entertainment guide lines. It could be seen as wrongly shaping young girls all into the same group.

Foucault suggests that each individual is unique and rather than seeing power as a site of oppression, he sees that individuals are a negotiation and in play identities are formed. Identities are formed through such ways as magazines and cannot always be seen as the truth however, perhaps a suggestion of the way teenage girls are.

This magazine in many advice articles talks about telling the truth and being yourselves. Celebs also talks about girls being confident and happy about being healthy, These celebs may not be experts but they are trying to give young girls confidence.

This particular magazine does strongly reinforce gendered norms and values by the adverting girls were bright colours and always wearing making with their hair done all neat. This can strongly put young girls under pressure and causing problems within fitting in at school.