Title: All About the Girl : Culture, Power, and Identity
Abstract: Acknowledgements Foreword Michelle Fine Introduction Anita Harris Part 1: Constructing Girlhoods in the Twenty-First Century 1. Notes on Post Feminism 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: Anglo-centrism 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 Part 2: Feminism for Girls 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 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 Part 3: Sexualities 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 US April Burns and Maria Elena Torre Part 4: Popular and Virtual Cultures 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 Part 5: Schooling 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 Part 6: Research With and By Young Women 19. Colluding in 'Compulsory Heterosexuality?' Doing research with young women at school Kathryn Morris-Roberts 20. Speaking Back: Voices of young urban women of color using participatory action research to challenge and complicate representations of young women Caitlin Cahill and the 'Fed Up Honeys': 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
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-09-20
Language: en
Type: book
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