Harris All About the Girl

Culture, Power, and Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93879-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie, Valerie Walkerdine, Nancy Lesko, Niobe Way and Deborah Tolman, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This is new scholarship at its best.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Foreword: Michelle Fine
Introduction: Anita Harris
Part 1: Constructing Girlhoods in the Twenty-First Century:
Chapter 1: Notes on Post Feminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime, Angela McRobbie
Chapter 2: Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies, Janie Victoria Ward and Beth Cooper Benjamin
Chapter 3: Good Girls, Bad girls: Anglo-centrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood, Christine Griffin
Chapter 4: From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood, Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin
Part 2: Feminism for Girls
Chapter 5: Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
Chapter 6: Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance, Jessica Taft
Chapter 7: Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the "Girl" in Feminist Discourse, Jennifer Eisenhauer
Chapter 8: "I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain, Madeleine Jowett
Part 3: Sexualities
Chapter 9: Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities, Kate Gleeson and Hannah Frith
Chapter 10: Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience, Anne Marie Tupuola
Chapter 11: Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-Only Education in the US, April Burns and María Elena Torre
Part 4: Popular and Virtual Cultures
Chapter 12: Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual, Debbie Weekes
Chapter 13: Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture, Bettina Fritzsche
Chapter 14: Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship, Anita Harris
Chapter 15: Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual "Room of One's Own?" Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell
Part 5: Schooling
Chapter 16: Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education, Nancy Lesko and Antoinette Quarshie
Chapter 17: Girls, Schooling and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom, Amy L. Best
Chapter 18: Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School, Mary Jane Kehily
Part 6: Research With and By Young Women
Chapter 19: Colluding in "Compulsory Heterosexuality?" Doing Research With Young Women at School, Kathryn Morris-Roberts
Chapter 20: Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Woman of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women, Caitlin Cahill and the "Fed Up Honeys": Erica Arenas, Jennifer Contreras, Jiang Na, Indra Rios-Moore, and Tiffany Threatts
Chapter 21: Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home Front, Adreanne Ormond
Chapter 22: Possible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm, Lori Lobenstine, Yasmin Pereira, Jenny Whitley, Jessica Robles, Yaraliz Soto, Jeanette Sergeant, Daisy Jimenez, Emily Jimenez, Jessenia Ortiz, and Sasha Cirino
Contributor Biographies
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anita Harris is Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. In 2000-2001, she was a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York and an invited speaker at Birmingham University.