All about the Girl: Culture, Power, and IdentityThis groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie, Valerie Walkerdine, Nancy Lesko, Niobe Way and Deborah Tolman, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This is new scholarship at its best. |
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Contents
Women Girls and the Unfinished Work | 15 |
Anglocentrism and Diversity | 29 |
CHRISTINE GRIFFIN | 41 |
Or How | 59 |
and Organizational Resistance | 69 |
Girl in Feminist Discourse | 79 |
Young Women Negotiating Feminism | 91 |
Young Women Presenting Mature | 103 |
A Virtual Room of Ones Own? | 173 |
Teaching Feminism | 185 |
Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom 195 Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom | 195 |
Continuities and Change | 205 |
Colluding in Compulsory Heterosexuality? Doing | 219 |
Voices of Young Urban Womyn | 231 |
Researching | 243 |
How a Group of Mothers | 255 |
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References to this book
Girlhood: Redefining the Limits Yasmin Jiwani,Candis Steenbergen,Claudia Mitchell No preview available - 2006 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | All about the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity Sociology / Women's studies |
| Editor | Anita Harris |
| Contributor | Michelle Fine |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0415947006, 9780415947008 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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