ISBN:
1410612635
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9781410612632
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 289 pages)
Series Statement:
Inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts
Parallel Title:
Print version Geographies of girlhood
DDC:
305.2355
Keywords:
Girls Social conditions
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United States
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Girls Psychology
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United States
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Teenage girls United States
;
Preteens United States
;
Identity (Psychology) United States
;
United States
;
Girls Social conditions
;
Girls Psychology
;
Teenage girls
;
Preteens
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Girls Social conditions
;
Preteens
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Girls Psychology
;
Teenage girls
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; Teenagers
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Girls ; Psychology
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Girls ; Social conditions
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Identity (Psychology)
;
Preteens
;
Teenage girls
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; Adolescence
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United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores how diverse adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in between those of child and adult, girl and woman
Description / Table of Contents:
Landscapes of girlhood / Pamela J. Bettis and Natalie G. AdamsBarbies, bases, and beer : the role of the home in junior high school girls' identity work / Don E. Merten -- Power beads, body glitter, and backseat bad-asses : girls, power, and position on the school bus / Laura Jewett -- Girl talk : adolescent girls' perceptions of leadership / Dawn M. Shinew and Deborah Thomas Jones -- Girls in groups : the preps and the sex mob try out for womanhood / Pamela J. Bettis, Debra Jordan, and Diane Montgomery -- "The beauty work" as a social space for messages about the female body : toward transformative collaboration / Rosary Lalik and Kimberly L. Oliver -- Fighters and cheerleaders : disrupting the discourse of "girl power" in the new millennium / Natalie G. Adams -- "Only 4-minute passing periods!" Private and public menstrual identities in school / Laura Fingerson -- In the world but not of it : gendered religious socialization at a Christian school / Stacey Elsasser --"We ain't no dogs" : teenage mothers (re)define themselves / Sandra Spickard Prettyman -- Black girls/white spaces : managing identity through memories of schooling / Cerri A. Banks -- Unstraightening the ideal girl : lesbians, high school, and spaces to be / John E. Petrovic and Rebecca M. Ballard -- Disputation of a bad reputation : adverse sexual labels and the lives of 12 Southern women / Delores D. Liston and Regina E. Moore-Rahimi -- Border crossing-border patrolling : race, gender, and the politics of sisterhood / Lyn Mikel Brown and Sandy Marie Grande -- "I am a woman now!" Rewriting cartographies of girlhood from the critical standpoint of disability / Nirmala Erevelles and Kagendo Mutua -- Afterword : Girlhood, place, and pedagogy / Pamela J. Bettis and Natalie G. Adams.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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