- Bib ID:
- 4935194
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Aapola, Sinikka
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- xi, 248 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780333965115
- 0333965116
- 0333965124
- Summary:
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This text draws on international work to do with femininity, identity and youth cultures to explore how girlhood is defined and portrayed in contemporary theoretical and popular discourses, and to examine how young women from different social backgrounds and cultural contexts negotiate their gendered identities. Encompassing topics such as sexuality, the body, friendship, family, education, work and citizenship, this is an appealing and wide-ranging text for students of sociology, gender studies and cultural studies.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Girl power : representations of the 'new' girl
- 2. Reviving Ophelia : girlhood as crisis
- 3. Education, work and self-making
- 4. Girls and the changing family
- 5. Re/sisters : girls' cultures and friendships
- 6. Sexuality and the body : old binaries and new possibilities
- 7. Politics, citizenship and young women
- 8. Feminism, power and social change.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
- Subject:
- Girls -- Social conditions
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- Copyright:
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