ISBN:
9780415946995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (307 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version All About the Girl : Culture, Power, and Identity
DDC:
305.23082
Keywords:
Feminist theory
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Teenage girls
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Women ; Identity
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Young women
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Notes on Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime; Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies; Good Girls, Bad Girls: Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood; From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood; Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong; Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance
Description / Table of Contents:
Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the ""Girl"" in Feminist Discourse""I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists"": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain; Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities; Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience; Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-only Education in the United States; Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual; Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer CitizenshipGirls' Web Sites: A Virtual ""Room of One's Own""?; Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education; Girls, Schooling, and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom; Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School; Colluding in ""Compulsory Heterosexuality""? Doing Research with Young Women at School; Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Womyn of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women
Description / Table of Contents:
Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home FrontPossible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm; Contributor Biographies; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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