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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452977303321

Titolo

Working relationally with girls : complex lives/complex identities / / Marie L. Hoskins, Sibylle Artz, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-203-72597-2

1-283-89357-6

1-135-80064-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArtzSibylle <1949->

HoskinsMarie L

Disciplina

305.235/2

305.2352

Soggetti

Teenage girls - Psychology

Gender identity

Identity (Psychology) in adolescence

Teenage girls - Social conditions

Social work with youth

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as Child & youth services, volume 26, number 2 2004"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction Local and Global Realities: Theorizing Gender Relations; Mothers' and Girls' Perspectives on Adolescent Sexuality; "I'm Stuck as Far as Relationships Go": Dilemmas of Voice in Girls' Dating Relationships; A Mediated Lifespace: Working Relationally with Girls; "It's an Acceptable Identity": Constructing "Girl" at the Intersections of Health, Media, and Meaning-Making; Using Popular Theatre for Engaging Racialized Minority Girls in Exploring Questions of Identity and Belonging

Radical Pragmatism: Prevention and Intervention with Girls in Conflict with the LawIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Discover how girls develop a sense of self as they struggle to make sense of complexand complicated timesWorking Relationally with Girls: Complex Lives, Complex Identities examines the experience of being a



girl in today's society and the difficulties social work practitioners face in developing a universal theory that represents that experience. This unique book analyzes how?and why?gender is still a complicated barrier for most girls, despite living in ?post-feminist? times. Working from a variety of orientations, the book offers practical suggestions on how to help girls d