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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817702403321

Titolo

All about the girl : culture, power, and identity / / edited by Anita Harris, with a foreword by Michelle Fine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93878-4

0-203-60451-2

1-135-93879-2

1-280-05942-7

0-203-49256-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FineMichelle

HarrisAnita <1968->

Disciplina

305.242/2

Soggetti

Teenage girls

Young women

Women - Identity

Feminist theory

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Notes on Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime; Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies; Good Girls, Bad Girls: Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood; From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood; Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong; Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance

Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the "Girl" in Feminist Discourse"I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain; Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities; Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience; Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-only Education in the United States;



Where My Girls At? Black

Sommario/riassunto

The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.