All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and IdentityAnita Harris Routledge, 2004 M10 29 - 306 pages This 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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... Becoming Feminine, have also been central to shaping contemporary girls' studies. There has been a recent explosion of texts in this field, including Susan Hopkins' Girl Heroes and Catherine Driscoll's Girls. Edited U.S. collections as ...
... Becoming Feminine, have also been central to shaping contemporary girls' studies. There has been a recent explosion of texts in this field, including Susan Hopkins' Girl Heroes and Catherine Driscoll's Girls. Edited U.S. collections as ...
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... become part of the work of girls' studies itself. Even the issue of how old a "girl" is — previously a fairly simplistic categorization of females between the ages of approximately 12 and 20 — has been complicated by both the "tweenies ...
... become part of the work of girls' studies itself. Even the issue of how old a "girl" is — previously a fairly simplistic categorization of females between the ages of approximately 12 and 20 — has been complicated by both the "tweenies ...
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... becoming. She argues provocatively that the girl has traditionally been an object for feminism rather than a subject in her own right. The chapter by Madeleine Jowett rounds up this section by investigating how some young women ...
... becoming. She argues provocatively that the girl has traditionally been an object for feminism rather than a subject in her own right. The chapter by Madeleine Jowett rounds up this section by investigating how some young women ...
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... Becoming Feminine. London: Falmer. Taylor, Jill MacLean, Carol Gilligan, and Amy M. Sullivan ( 1995). Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Walkerdine, Valerie, Helen ...
... Becoming Feminine. London: Falmer. Taylor, Jill MacLean, Carol Gilligan, and Amy M. Sullivan ( 1995). Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Walkerdine, Valerie, Helen ...
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... become intelligible. One means by which this is enacted, is through the unfolding of televisual and other popular narratives, where a field of new gender norms emerges (e.g., Sex and the City, Ally McBeal) in which female freedom and ...
... become intelligible. One means by which this is enacted, is through the unfolding of televisual and other popular narratives, where a field of new gender norms emerges (e.g., Sex and the City, Ally McBeal) in which female freedom and ...
Contents
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Women Girls and the Unfinished Work of Connection A Critical Review of American Girls Studies | 15 |
Good Girls Bad Girls Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood | 29 |
From Badness to Meanness Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood | 45 |
Feminism and Femininity Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong | 59 |
Girl Power Politics PopCulture Barriers and Organizational Resistance | 69 |
Mythic Figures and Lived Identities Locating the Girl in Feminist Discourse | 79 |
I Dont See Feminists as You See Feminists Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain | 91 |
Jamming Girl Culture Young Women and Consumer Citizenship | 163 |
Girls Web Sites A Virtual Room of Ones Own? | 173 |
Pleasures Within Reason Teaching Feminism and Education | 185 |
Girls Schooling and the Discourse of SelfChange Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom | 195 |
Gender and Sexuality Continuities and Change for Girls in School | 205 |
Colluding in Compulsory Heterosexuality? Doing Research with Young Women at School | 219 |
Speaking Back Voices of Young Urban Womyn of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Youn... | 231 |
Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence Researching the Home Front | 243 |
Pretty in Pink Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities | 103 |
Talking Sexuality Through an Insiders Lens The Samoan Experience | 115 |
Shifting Desires Discourses of Accountability in Abstinenceonly Education in the United States | 127 |
Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual | 141 |
Spicy Strategies Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture | 155 |
Possible Selves and Pasteles How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm | 255 |
Contributor Biographies | 265 |
Index | 271 |
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