- Bib ID:
- 1176773
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johnson, Lesley, 1949-
- Description:
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- Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1993
- vi, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0335099998
- 033509998X (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- A feminist history of girlhood and growing up
- 1. Feminism and the 'awakening of women'. A pathology of women? Authentic selves. New identities
- 2. The importance of having: modernity, women and consumerism. Modernity. Women, mass culture and consumerism. Women and modernity
- 3. Growing up as a modern individual: on youth and modernity in the 1950s. Youth as symbol of modernity. Youth and the post-war era. Youth as a separate category of person
- 4. Growing up in modern Australia: the study of young people in Australia in the 1950s. Australia - 'the lusty youth'. Investigating Australian youth. From cultural ideals to normalizing techniques. Alternative images of the self?
- 5. The modern school girl: debates about the education of young women. Modernizing the secondary school system. Schooling and the achievement of a sexed identity
- 6. Youth on the streets: the social regulation of young people as 'teenagers' and as 'youth'. The teenager. Troublesome youth.
- Organized youth
- 7. 'The best of everything': defining the space of the teenage girl. 'What interests teenage girls?'. Disciplining the feminine. Feminine achievement stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-181) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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