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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... contexts. Among the questions it addresses are: How are young women positioned and how do they position themselves in ... context, the work of Michelle Fine was among the first to account for the discursive possibilities as well as safe ...
... contexts. Among the questions it addresses are: How are young women positioned and how do they position themselves in ... context, the work of Michelle Fine was among the first to account for the discursive possibilities as well as safe ...
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... context of three major changes for the field. First, whereas a "first wave" of girls' studies aimed to expose and rectify the oppression experienced by young women, today it. 3 This overview is, of course, partial. Most notably, there ...
... context of three major changes for the field. First, whereas a "first wave" of girls' studies aimed to expose and rectify the oppression experienced by young women, today it. 3 This overview is, of course, partial. Most notably, there ...
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... context of an increasingly inequitable distribution of resources among girls. That is, there exists a sharpening bifurcation between young female "haves" and "have nots," but far greater access to discourses of power on the part of all ...
... context of an increasingly inequitable distribution of resources among girls. That is, there exists a sharpening bifurcation between young female "haves" and "have nots," but far greater access to discourses of power on the part of all ...
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... context, suggesting that assumptions embedded in adolescent development theory — for example, of sexual freedoms in the liberal West versus sexual oppressions in the traditional Pacific — do not hold up when examining young women's ...
... context, suggesting that assumptions embedded in adolescent development theory — for example, of sexual freedoms in the liberal West versus sexual oppressions in the traditional Pacific — do not hold up when examining young women's ...
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... context. They suggest that such "biomythographies" can open up spaces for connecting, deconstructing, and questioning universalizing notions of womanhood and girlhood. Part 6 deals with new approaches to research about girlhood ...
... context. They suggest that such "biomythographies" can open up spaces for connecting, deconstructing, and questioning universalizing notions of womanhood and girlhood. Part 6 deals with new approaches to research about girlhood ...
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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