Geographies of girlhood : identities in-between / edited by Pamela J. Bettis, Natalie G. Adams.
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2005.
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| Series: | Inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.