Bibliographic Information


Magazine: Seventeen

Publisher: Hearst Corporation

Editor: Michelle Tan

Website: http://www.seventeen.com

Type: Subscription Magazine

ASIN: B01FWZD4QE

 

Magazine Content Summary

Seventeen is a monthly subscription magazine that provides teenage girls with information about fashion, popular culture, makeup, health, and celebrities. The magazine likes to include articles about individuals that they feel are appropriate role models for teen girls. The magazine also includes at least one unedited photo in each issue in order to give readers images of real and relatable females. In 2012 the magazine published an editorial called “The Body Peace Treaty” as part of their campaign for “Celebrate every kind of beauty” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/).

 

Critical Evaluation


I’m torn about how I feel about Seventeen. In one article the magazine talks about different female athletes participating in the Olympics and in another article it talks about how to put a condom on correctly. I think it is important that teens have resources that provide them a wide array of information and I think Seventeen does just that. I think the magazine can be considered controversial for how blunt they are about sex related topics and that it could easily be challenged for appropriate content. The magazine provides teen readers with real information on a wide assortment of topics. I think teen readers appreciate the magazine’s honesty and straightforward formatting. The magazine included funny popular culture articles about celebrities and news about film and television. There were even articles about health related topics, specifically about female problems and body parts. The magazine reminded me of Cosmopolitan, but for teenagers.

 

Pages were also well organized and laid out like a chapter book. There was an index in the front of the magazine that you could look at before browsing the magazine. Pages were color coded, so you knew if you were looking at fashion or celebrity news. The magazine had a ton of advertisements and sometimes they were presented like real articles. I found that a bit annoying, but over all thought the content in the magazine was good. 

 

Reader’s Annotation


All you want to know about love, life, health, fashion, makeup, celebrities, food and more for the teen reader!

 

Magazine Information

 

The following magazine information was taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_(American_magazine).

 

“Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. The magazine's reader base is 10-to-21-year-old females. It began as a publication geared towards inspiring teen girls to become model workers and citizens. Soon after its debut, Seventeen took a more fashion and romance-oriented approach in presenting its material while promoting self-confidence in young women. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications.”

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Genre

Magazine, Fashion

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Curriculum Ties


Fashion, Reporting, Popular Culture

 

Booktalking Ideas


N/A

 

Reading Level/ Interest Age


Grades 9-12, Ages 10-21

 

Challenge Issues


Language, Mature Content, Sex Information

 

Challenge Issue Resources (for usage in a challenge situation)

• Active Listening

• Explanation of why it was chosen for the collection (Rational)

• Awards

• Reader Advisory Reviews (Students, Parents, Educators)

• Positive and Negative Reviews

• National Council of Teachers “Right to Read”

• ALA Strategies and Tips for Dealing with Challenges to Library Materials

• ALA Bill of Rights on Intellectual Freedom

• Library Selection Policy & Library District Reconsideration Form

 

Why I choose it

I choose to read this because my students are often reading it. I also always see it on display at stores.