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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816173203321

Autore

O'Quinn Elaine J

Titolo

Girls' Literacy Experiences In and Out of School [[electronic resource] ] : Learning and Composing Gendered Identities

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-64311-1

0-203-80213-6

1-136-62470-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Classificazione

EDU000000EDU029020LAN010000

Disciplina

373.182352

373.1823520973

Soggetti

EDUCATION / General

EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy

Literacy - Social aspects - United States

Teenage girls - Books and reading - United States

Teenage girls - Education - United States

Teenage girls - United States - Social conditions

Women - United States - Identity

Young adult literature

Young adult literature - Social conditions - United States

Teenage girls - Identity - United States

Women

Education

Social Sciences

Education, Special Topics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Girls and Literacy: A Historical Overview; 1 ""The Order of the Scroll"": Surveying Girls' Literacy Performances in and out



of School, 1885-2001; PART II: Girls Made Visible; 2 Teaching Historically Based, Culturally Rich YA Novels with Strong Girl Protagonists; 3 Empowerment, YA Immigrant Literature, and Girls; 4 Through a Lesbian Lens: Girls, Femininity, and Sexuality on a Reading Spectrum; 5 Girls around the Globe as Advocates for Political, Cultural, and Social Literacy at Home

6 Girls Composing Their Lives: Reading and Writing Contemporary MemoirPART III: Popular Culture, Technology, and the New Media; 7 Girlhood, Agency, and Pop Culture Literacy: The Twilight Saga as Exemplar; 8 The Challenges of Teaching Girls (Re)Presentation of Self and Others through Media Studies and Citizen Journalism; PART IV: Feminism and English Classroom Practices; 9 Complicating Gender Binaries in the Feminist English Classroom; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How do American girls compose and amend their identities? In this text, prominent scholars in their respective fields examine the complex social and cultural constructions that shape girls' lives both in and out of school. The book looks at matters ranging from embedded issues of class, race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and sexuality to popular culture and personal histories. Exploring the scholarly literature on gender and education, the successes and failures of feminist pedagogy, and girls' practices with both traditional and non-traditional texts, as well as the primary s