Young femininity : girlhood, power, and social change /
Aapola, Sinikka.
Young femininity : girlhood, power, and social change / Sinikka Aapola, Marnina Gonick, and Anita Harris ; consultant editor, Jo Campling. - xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Girl power : representations of the 'new' girl -- Reviving Ophelia : girlhood as crisis -- Education, work and self-making -- Girls and the changing family -- Re/sisters : girls' cultures and friendships -- Sexuality and the body : old binaries and new possibilities -- Politics, citizenship and young women -- Feminism, power and social change. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"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."--Publisher description.
0333965116 9780333965115 0333965124 9780333965122
2004042106
Girls--Social conditions
HQ777 / .A23 2005
305.23082
Young femininity : girlhood, power, and social change / Sinikka Aapola, Marnina Gonick, and Anita Harris ; consultant editor, Jo Campling. - xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Girl power : representations of the 'new' girl -- Reviving Ophelia : girlhood as crisis -- Education, work and self-making -- Girls and the changing family -- Re/sisters : girls' cultures and friendships -- Sexuality and the body : old binaries and new possibilities -- Politics, citizenship and young women -- Feminism, power and social change. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"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."--Publisher description.
0333965116 9780333965115 0333965124 9780333965122
2004042106
Girls--Social conditions
HQ777 / .A23 2005
305.23082