| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 289 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts
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Inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Landscapes of girlhood / Pamela J. Bettis and Natalie G. Adams -- Barbies, bases, and beer : the role of the home in junior high school girls' identity work / Don E. Merten -- Power beads, body glitter, and backseat bad-asses : girls, power, and position on the school bus / Laura Jewett -- Girl talk : adolescent girls' perceptions of leadership / Dawn M. Shinew and Deborah Thomas Jones -- Girls in groups : the preps and the sex mob try out for womanhood / Pamela J. Bettis, Debra Jordan, and Diane Montgomery -- "The beauty work" as a social space for messages about the female body : toward transformative collaboration / Rosary Lalik and Kimberly L. Oliver -- Fighters and cheerleaders : disrupting the discourse of "girl power" in the new millennium / Natalie G. Adams -- "Only 4-minute passing periods!" Private and public menstrual identities in school / Laura Fingerson -- In the world but not of it : gendered religious socialization at a Christian school / Stacey Elsasser --"We ain't no dogs" : teenage mothers (re)define themselves / Sandra Spickard Prettyman -- Black girls/white spaces : managing identity through memories of schooling / Cerri A. Banks -- Unstraightening the ideal girl : lesbians, high school, and spaces to be / John E. Petrovic and Rebecca M. Ballard -- Disputation of a bad reputation : adverse sexual labels and the lives of 12 Southern women / Delores D. Liston and Regina E. Moore-Rahimi -- Border crossing-border patrolling : race, gender, and the politics of sisterhood / Lyn Mikel Brown and Sandy Marie Grande -- "I am a woman now!" Rewriting cartographies of girlhood from the critical standpoint of disability / Nirmala Erevelles and Kagendo Mutua -- Afterword : Girlhood, place, and pedagogy / Pamela J. Bettis and Natalie G. Adams. |
| Summary |
Explores how diverse adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in between those of child and adult, girl and woman. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Girls -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Girls. |
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
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Girls -- United States -- Psychology.
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Psychology. |
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Teenage girls -- United States.
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Teenage girls. |
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Preteens -- United States.
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Preteens. |
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Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
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Identity (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Girls. |
| Added Author |
Bettis, Pamela, 1955-
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Adams, Natalie G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geographies of girlhood. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005 0805846735 0805846743 (DLC) 2004053289 (OCoLC)55665274 |
| ISBN |
1410612635 (electronic book) |
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9781410612632 (electronic book) |
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0805846735 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0805846743 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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