Girls' talk as a resource for identity construction -- Talking young feminities : identity and the interplay between gender, ethnicity, and social class -- Cool and socially aware private-school girls -- Sheltered but independent East End girls -- Tough and respectable British Bangladeshi girls -- Sex talk and the construction of young femininities -- Self-disclosing sex talk : self-determined girls -- Playful sex talk : "good girls" and "bad girls" -- Impersonal sex talk : knowing girls.