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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... Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain 91 MADELEINE JOWETT PART 3 Sexuality 9 Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities 103 KATE GLEESON AND HANNAH FRITH 10 Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The ...
... Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain 91 MADELEINE JOWETT PART 3 Sexuality 9 Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities 103 KATE GLEESON AND HANNAH FRITH 10 Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The ...
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... Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom 195 AMY L. BEST 18 Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School 205 MARY JANE KEHILY PART 6 Research With and By Young Women 19 Colluding in "Compulsory Heterosexuality ...
... Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom 195 AMY L. BEST 18 Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School 205 MARY JANE KEHILY PART 6 Research With and By Young Women 19 Colluding in "Compulsory Heterosexuality ...
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... negotiate, "Are you done yet?" Friends giggle about boys, girls, bodies, clothes, and performances. Older women lower themselves onto the seat. Just the generation who believes they have to put paper down or squat is the one least ...
... negotiate, "Are you done yet?" Friends giggle about boys, girls, bodies, clothes, and performances. Older women lower themselves onto the seat. Just the generation who believes they have to put paper down or squat is the one least ...
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... negotiating new and old sex-gender hierarchies. Amy L. Best takes up this theme of negotiating old and new gendered and sexual identities in her chapter on the meanings of high school proms. She argues that the prom is an opportunity ...
... negotiating new and old sex-gender hierarchies. Amy L. Best takes up this theme of negotiating old and new gendered and sexual identities in her chapter on the meanings of high school proms. She argues that the prom is an opportunity ...
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... negotiations and vulnerabilities, and offer their reflections on the process by which their team created the Fed Up Honeys project, by and about young urban women of color. Adreanne Ormond then offers an important intervention into the ...
... negotiations and vulnerabilities, and offer their reflections on the process by which their team created the Fed Up Honeys project, by and about young urban women of color. Adreanne Ormond then offers an important intervention into the ...
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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