The hidden life of girls [[electronic resource] ] : games of stance, status, and exclusion / / Marjorie Harness Goodwin

• Autore: Goodwin Marjorie Harness
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.3/4083
• Soggetto topico: Girls - Social networks; Girls - Psychology; Social interaction in children; Interpersonal relations in children
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-316) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Multimodality, conflict, and rationality in girls' games -- Social dimensions of a popular girls' clique -- Social organization, opposition, and directives in the game of jump rope -- Language practices for indexing social status : stories, descriptions, brags, and comparisons -- Stance and structure in assessment and gossip activity -- Constructing social difference and exclusion in girls' groups.
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds. Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on female moral development by challenging the notion that girls are inherently supportive of each other Examines the stances that girls on a playground in a multicultural school setting assume and shows how they position themselves in their peer groups Documents the language practices and degradation rit
• Titolo autorizzato: The hidden life of girls
• ISBN: 1-280-85081-7; 9786610850815; 0-470-70693-7; 0-470-77356-1; 1-4051-7829-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213197603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell studies in discourse and culture.