This study uses ethnography to explore the context and significance of female students reading teen magazines in schools; it also determines the sexuality and gender knowledge and methods for constructing gender identification girls derive from these magazines. The findings of this study indicate that young females read teen magazines because teen magazines touch upon the daily fears and uncertainties of these young girls. These fears and uncertainties include eagerness for friendship and company, bodily changes, and desires for sexual experiences, love, and a bright future. Teen magazines serve as a cultural resource through which girls can calm their fears and face their desires. They also provide possible approaches and hope for solving problems, aiding in the achievement of body shape and identity fulfilling social and personal expectations. In a school setting, reading teen magazines is the easiest way for these girls to feel “girlie” and display heterosexualized femininity. During the process of becoming a girl, females must continually negotiate varioussexual and gender discourses, especially the dominant versions of these discourses. Although patriarchal ideology and body aesthetics in teen magazines may influence teenage girls to some extent, these girls are not completely dominated by these ideas. This study emphasizes that the realization of body and desire teenage girls exercise through teen magazines should be considered a type of girl power; it is an attempt to grasp and dominate the not yet completed power of the body, and an attempt to control the body and practice gender using the resources at hand. This girl power is a method of empowerment that develops from the gender experiences and struggles of daily life; it must be recognized and valued.