Geographies of girlhood : identities in-between

Bettis, Pamela, 1955- (Added Author). Adams, Natalie G. (Added Author).

Summary: Explores how diverse adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in between those of child and adult, girl and woman.

Record details

ISBN: 9781410612632
ISBN: 1410612635
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 289 pages).
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Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Landscapes of girlhood / Pamela J. Bettis and Natalie G. Adams -- Barbies, bases, and beer : the role of the home in junior high school girls' identity work / Don E. Merten -- Power beads, body glitter, and backseat bad-asses : girls, power, and position on the school bus / Laura Jewett -- Girl talk : adolescent girls' perceptions of leadership / Dawn M. Shinew and Deborah Thomas Jones -- Girls in groups : the preps and the sex mob try out for womanhood / Pamela J. Bettis, Debra Jordan, and Diane Montgomery -- "The beauty work" as a social space for messages about the female body : toward transformative collaboration / Rosary Lalik and Kimberly L. Oliver -- Fighters and cheerleaders : disrupting the discourse of "girl power" in the new millennium / Natalie G. Adams -- "Only 4-minute passing periods!" Private and public menstrual identities in school / Laura Fingerson -- In the world but not of it : gendered religious socialization at a Christian school / Stacey Elsasser --"We ain't no dogs" : teenage mothers (re)define themselves / Sandra Spickard Prettyman -- Black girls/white spaces : managing identity through memories of schooling / Cerri A. Banks -- Unstraightening the ideal girl : lesbians, high school, and spaces to be / John E. Petrovic and Rebecca M. Ballard -- Disputation of a bad reputation : adverse sexual labels and the lives of 12 Southern women / Delores D. Liston and Regina E. Moore-Rahimi -- Border crossing-border patrolling : race, gender, and the politics of sisterhood / Lyn Mikel Brown and Sandy Marie Grande -- "I am a woman now!" Rewriting cartographies of girlhood from the critical standpoint of disability / Nirmala Erevelles and Kagendo Mutua -- Afterword : Girlhood, place, and pedagogy / Pamela J. Bettis and Natalie G. Adams.
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