edited by Anita Harris ; with a foreword by Michelle Fine.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xxv, 280 pages) :
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illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 Maria 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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.