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All about the girl : culture, power, and identity
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- Creator
- edited by Anita Harris ; with a foreword by Michelle Fine
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780203604519, 1135938784, 0415946999, 0203492560, 9780415947008, 1135938792, 9780203492567, 9780415946995, 0415947006, 0203604512, 9781135938796, 1280059427, 9781280059421, 9781135938789
- OCLC
- ocm56899602, ocm54817499, ocn271586313
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Michelle Fine -- Introduction / Anita Harris -- 1. Notes on postfeminism and popular culture : Bridget Jones and the new gender regime / Angela McRobbie -- 2. Women, girls, and the unfinished work of connection : a critical review of American girls' studies / Janie Victoria Ward and Beth Cooper Benjamin -- 3. Good girls, bad girls : Anglocentrism and diversity in the constitution of contemporary girlhood / Christine Griffin -- 4. From badness to meanness : popular constructions of contemporary girlhood / Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin -- 5. Feminism and femininity : or how we learned to stop worrying and love the thong / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards -- 6. Girl power politics : pop-culture barriers and organizational resistance / Jessica K. Taft -- 7. Mythic figures and lived identities : locating the "girl" in feminist discourse / Jennifer Eisenhauer -- 8. "I don't see feminists as you see feminists" : young women negotiating feminism in contemporary Britain / Madeleine Jowett -- 9. Pretty in pink : young women presenting mature sexual identities / Kate Gleeson and Hannah Frith -- 10. Talking sexuality through an insider's lens : the Samoan experience / Anne-Marie Tupuola -- 11. Shifting desires : discourses of accountability in abstinence-only education in the United States / April Burns and Maria Elena Torre -- 12. Where my girls at? : black girls and the construction of the sexual / Debbie Weekes -- 13. Spicy strategies : pop feminist and other empowerments in girl culture / Bettina Fritzsche -- 14. Jamming girl culture : young women and consumer citizenship / Anita Harris -- 15. Girls' Web sites : a virtual "room of one's own"? / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell -- 16. Pleasures within reason : teaching feminism and education / Nancy Lesko and Antoinette Quarshie -- 17. Girls, schooling, and the discourse of self-change : negotiating meanings of the high school prom / Amy L. Best -- 18. Gender and sexuality : continuities and change for girls in school / Mary Jane Kehily -- 19. Colluding in "compulsory heterosexuality"? : doing research with young women at school / Kathryn Morris-Roberts -- 20. Speaking back : voices of young urban womyn of color using participatory action research to challenge and complicate representations of young women / Caitlin Cahill, Erica Arenas, Jennifer Contreras, Jiang Na, Indra Rios-Moore and Tiffany Threatts -- 21. Beneath the surface of voice and silence : researching the home front / Adreanne Ormond -- 22. Possible selves and pasteles : how a group of mothers and daughters took a London conference by storm / Lori Lobenstine, Yasmin Pereira, Jenny Whitley, Jessica Robles, Yaraliz Soto, Jeanette Sergeant, Daisy Jimenez, Emily Jimenez, Jessenia Ortiz and Sasha Cirino