All about the girl : culture, power, and identity / edited by Anita Harris, with a foreword by Michelle Fine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Post Feminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime / Angela McRobbie -- Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies / Janie Victoria Ward and Beth Cooper Benjamin -- Good Girls, Bad girls: Anglo-centrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood / Christine Griffin -- From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood / Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin -- Feminism for Girls -- Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards -- Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance / Jessica Taft -- Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the "Girl" in Feminist Discourse / Jennifer Eisenhauer -- "I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain / Madeleine Jowett -- Sexualities -- Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities / Kate Gleeson and Hannah Frith -- Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience / Anne Marie Tupuola -- Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-Only Education in the US April Burns and María Elena Torre -- Popular and Virtual Cultures --

Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual / Debbie Weekes -- Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture / Bettina Fritzsche -- Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship / Anita Harris -- Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual "Room of One's Own?" / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell -- Schooling -- Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education / Nancy Lesko and Antoinette Quarshie -- Girls, Schooling and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom / Amy L. Best -- Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School / Mary Jane Kehily -- Research With and By Young Women -- Colluding in "Compulsory Heterosexuality?" Doing Research With Young Women at School / Kathryn Morris-Roberts -- Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Womyn of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women / Caitlin Cahill, Erica Arenas, Jennifer Contreras, Jiang Na, Indra Rios-Moore, and Tiffany Threatts -- Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home Front / Adreanne Ormond -- Possible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm / Lori Lobenstine, Yasmin Pereira, Jenny Whitley, Jessica Robles, Yaraliz Soto, Jeanette Sergeant, Daisy Jimenez, Emily Jimenez, Jessenia Ortiz, and Sasha Cirino.

"This groundbreaking anthology offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie and Nancy Lesko, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This lively collection is a must read."--Publisher description.

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