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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... Consumer Citizenship 163 ANITA HARRIS 15 Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual "Room of One's Own"? 173 JACQUELINE REID-WALSH AND CLAUDIA MITCHELL PART 5 Schooling 16 Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education 185 NANCY LESKO AND ...
... Consumer Citizenship 163 ANITA HARRIS 15 Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual "Room of One's Own"? 173 JACQUELINE REID-WALSH AND CLAUDIA MITCHELL PART 5 Schooling 16 Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education 185 NANCY LESKO AND ...
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... consumers, producers, and simply as exploited bodies. These chapters theorize the neoliberal discursive shifts, from constraint to "choice," from liberation to (neo)liberal. Reading the manuscript, I flashed to a conversation I had ...
... consumers, producers, and simply as exploited bodies. These chapters theorize the neoliberal discursive shifts, from constraint to "choice," from liberation to (neo)liberal. Reading the manuscript, I flashed to a conversation I had ...
Page xvii
... consumer-oriented girlpower. While some privileged young women are indeed reaping the benefits of new opportunities, those without economic or social capital are slipping through the ever-widening holes in what remains of our social ...
... consumer-oriented girlpower. While some privileged young women are indeed reaping the benefits of new opportunities, those without economic or social capital are slipping through the ever-widening holes in what remains of our social ...
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... consumers and producers of cultures of music, fashion, style, and play. Debbie Weekes opens the section with an analysis of young African-Caribbean women's ambiguous relationship to ragga and rap music. She discusses the ways young ...
... consumers and producers of cultures of music, fashion, style, and play. Debbie Weekes opens the section with an analysis of young African-Caribbean women's ambiguous relationship to ragga and rap music. She discusses the ways young ...
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... consumer citizens through the girl culture industry. I suggest that this is being met by a "culture jamming" counter-move by some young women who find ways to re-introduce production and creativity into experiences of citizenship, and ...
... consumer citizens through the girl culture industry. I suggest that this is being met by a "culture jamming" counter-move by some young women who find ways to re-introduce production and creativity into experiences of citizenship, 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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