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Young femininity : girlhood, power, and social change / Sinikka Aapola, Marnina Gonick, and Anita Harris ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xi, 248 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333965116
  • 9780333965115
  • 0333965124
  • 9780333965122
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23082 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ777 .A23 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Girl power : representations of the 'new' girl -- 2. Reviving Ophelia : girlhood as crisis -- 3. Education, work and self-making -- 4. Girls and the changing family -- 5. Re/sisters : girls' cultures and friendships -- 6. Sexuality and the body : old binaries and new possibilities -- 7. Politics, citizenship and young women -- 8. Feminism, power and social change.
Summary: "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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 305.23082 AAP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A412289B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 305.23082 APP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A414557B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.

1. Girl power : representations of the 'new' girl -- 2. Reviving Ophelia : girlhood as crisis -- 3. Education, work and self-making -- 4. Girls and the changing family -- 5. Re/sisters : girls' cultures and friendships -- 6. Sexuality and the body : old binaries and new possibilities -- 7. Politics, citizenship and young women -- 8. Feminism, power and social change.

"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.

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