Running for their lives : girls, cultural identity, and stories of survival / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2000Description: xxi, 199 p. : illISBN:- 0847698513 (paper : alk. paepr)
- 0847698505 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 305.23
- HQ777. R86 2000
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 305.23 RUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A210263B |
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305.23 RIT Growing up in New Zealand / | 305.23 RIT Growing up in New Zealand / | 305.23 RIT Growing up in Polynesia / | 305.23 RUN Running for their lives : girls, cultural identity, and stories of survival / | 305.23 UND Understanding childhood : a cross disciplinary approach / | 305.23 WHI Youth and society / | 305.23 WYN Childhood and society / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Girl Problems -- Pt. I. Dancing the Bashenga: Girls Confront Racism -- 1. Coming to America: Not the Movie by Eddie Murphy -- 2. From Foutou to French Fries: Life on the Edge of African and American Cultures -- 3. "Mommy, I Just Want to Fit In!": An African Girl's Story -- 4. Childhood Misconceptions: Reflections of a Biracial American (Colored) Girl -- 5. Mah-Rukh Ali: Profile of a Norwegian -- 6. Fighting Shame: A Somali Single Teen Mother in Canada -- Pt. II. Don't Look Down: Girls Living on the Edge -- 7. A Tightrope Made of Sari Silk: The Delicate, Perilous World of Girlhood in India -- 8. Afia's Story: A Guide to Survival -- 9. A Tryst Missed: Girlhood in Pakistan -- 10. Horizontal Rain: Road from Sarajevo -- 11. Charley Lauren's Story: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mental Illness -- About the Contributors.
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