Geographies of Girlhood (eBook, ePUB)

Identities In-between
Redaktion: Bettis, Pamela J.; Adams, Natalie G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how 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 that of child and adult, girl and woman. It illuminates the everyday realities of adolescent girls and the real issues that concern them, rather than what adult researchers think is important to adolescent girls. The contributing authors take seriously what girls have to say about themselves and the places and discursive spaces that they inhabit daily. Rather than focusing on girls in the classroom, the book explores adolescent female identity in a myriad of kid-defined spaces both in-between the formal design of schooling, as well as outside its purview--from bedrooms to school hallways to the Internet to discourses of cheerleading, race, sexuality, and ablebodiness. These are the geographies of girlhood, the important sites of identity construction for girls and young women.

This book is situated within the fledgling field of Girls Studies. All chapters are based on field research with adolescent girls and young women; hence, the voices of girls themselves are primary in every chapter. All of the authors in the text use the notion of liminality to theorize the in-between spaces and places of schools that are central to how adolescent girls construct a sense of self. The focus of the book on the fluidity of femininity highlights the importance of race, class, sexual orientation, and other salient features of personal identity in discussions of how girls construct gendered identities in different ways.

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between challenges scholars, professionals, and students concerned with gender issues to take seriously the everyday concerns of adolescent girls. It is recommended as a text for education, sociology, and women's studies courses that address these issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135620981
• Artikelnr.: 38248397

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. P.J. Bettis
N.G. Adams
Landscapes of Girlhood. Part I: Before School.D.E. Merten
Barbies
Bases
and Beer: The Role of the Home in Junior High Girls' Identity Work. L. Jewett
Power Beads
Body Glitter
and Backseat Bad-Asses: Girls
Power
and Position on the School Bus. Part II: At School.D.M. Shinew
D.T. Jones
Girl Talk: Adolescent Girls' Perceptions of Leadership. P.J. Bettis
D. Jordan
D. Montgomery
Girls in Groups: The Preps and the Sex Mob Try Out for Womanhood. R. Lalik
K.L. Oliver
"The Beauty Walk" as a Social Space for Messages About the Female Body: Toward Transformative Collaboration. N.G. Adams
Fighters and Cheerleaders: Disrupting the Discourse of "Girl Power" in the New Millennium. L. Fingerson
"Only Four Minute Passing Periods!" Private and Public Menstrual Identities in School. S. Elsasser
In the World But Not of It: Gendered Religious Socialization at a Christian School. S.S. Prettyman
"We Ain't No Dogs": Teenage Mothers (Re)Define Themselves. Part III: After School.C.A. Banks
Black Girls/White Spaces: Managing Identity Through Memories of Schooling. J.E. Petrovic
R.M. Ballard
Unstraightening the Ideal Girl: Lesbians
High School
and Spaces to Be. D.D. Liston
R.E. Moore-Rahimi
Disputation of a Bad Reputation: Adverse Sexual Labels and the Lives of Twelve Southern Women. L.M. Brown
S.M. Grande
Border Crossing--Border Patrolling: Race
Gender
and the Politics of Sisterhood. N. Erevelles
K. Mutua
"I Am a Woman Now!": Rewriting Cartographies of Girlhood From the Critical Standpoint of Disability. P.J. Bettis
N.G. Adams
Afterword: Girlhood
Places
and Pedagogy.