Geographies of Girlhood : Identities In-between

by Bettis, Pamela J.; Adams, Natalie G.

• ISBN13: 9781410612632
• ISBN10: 1410612635
• Copyright: 2005-02-17
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Summary

Explores the everyday lives of adolescent girls in terms of how forming one's identity--becoming somebody--takes place in a myriad of places beyond the formal classroom and curriculum.

Table of Contents

Preface

Landscapes of Girlhood

Before School

Barbies, Bases, and Beer: The Role of the Home in Junior High Girls' Identity Work

Power Beads, Body Glitter, and Backseat Bad-Asses: Girls, Power, and Position on the School Bus

At School

Girl Talk: Adolescent Girls' Perceptions of Leadership

Girls in Groups: The Preps and the Sex Mob Try Out for Womanhood

"The Beauty Walk" as a Social Space for Messages About the Female Body: Toward Transformative Collaboration

Fighters and Cheerleaders: Disrupting the Discourse of "Girl Power" in the New Millennium

"Only Four Minute Passing Periods!" Private and Public Menstrual Identities in School

In the World But Not of It: Gendered Religious Socialization at a Christian School

"We Ain't No Dogs": Teenage Mothers (Re)Define Themselves

After School

Black Girls/White Spaces: Managing Identity Through Memories of Schooling

Unstraightening the Ideal Girl: Lesbians, High School, and Spaces to Be

Disputation of a Bad Reputation: Adverse Sexual Labels and the Lives of Twelve Southern Women

Border Crossing--Border Patrolling: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Sisterhood

"I Am a Woman Now!": Rewriting Cartographies of Girlhood From the Critical Standpoint of Disability

Afterword: Girlhood, Places, and Pedagogy

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