All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity

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ISBN: 9780415946995 | 0415946999
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/20/2004

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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.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

MICHELLE FINE

Introduction

xvii

ANITA HARRIS

PART 1 Constructing Girlhoods in the Twenty-First Century

1 Notes on Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime

(12)

ANGELA McROBBIE

2 Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies

(14)

JANIE VICTORIA WARD AND BETH COOPER BENJAMIN

3 Good Girls, Bad Girls: Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood

(16)

CHRISTINE GRIFFIN

4 From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood

(14)

MEDA CHESNEY-LIND AND KATHERINE IRWIN

PART 2 Feminism for Girls

5 Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong

(10)

JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER AND AMY RICHARDS

6 Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance

(10)

JESSICA K. TAFT

7 Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the "Girl" in Feminist Discourse

(12)

JENNIFER EISENHAUER

8 "I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain

(12)

MADELEINE JOWETT

PART 3 Sexuality

9 Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities

103

(12)

KATE GLEESON AND HANNAH FRITH

10 Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience

115

(12)

ANNE-MARIE TUPUOLA

11 Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-only Education in the United States

127

(14)

APRIL BURNS AND MARIA ELENA TORRE

PART 4 Popular and Virtual Cultures

12 Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual

141

(14)

DEBBIE WEEKES

13 Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture

155

(8)

BETTINA FRITZSCHE

14 Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship

163

(10)

ANITA HARRIS

15 Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual "Room of One's Own"?

173

(12)

JACQUELINE REID-WALSH AND CLAUDIA MITCHELL

PART 5 Schooling

16 Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education

185

(10)

NANCY LESKO AND ANTOINETTE QUARSHIE

17 Girls, Schooling, and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom

195

(10)

AMY L. BEST

18 Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School

205

(14)

MARY JANE KEHILY

PART 6 Research With and By Young Women

19 Colluding in "Compulsory Heterosexuality"? Doing Research with Young Women at School

219

(12)

KATHRYN MORRIS-ROBERTS

20 Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Womyn of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women

231

(12)

CAITLIN CAHILL, ERICA ARENAS, JENNIFER CONTRERAS, JIANG NA, INDRA RIOS-MOORE, AND TIFFANY THREATTS

21 Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home Front

243

(12)

ADREANNE ORMOND

22 Possible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm

255

(10)

LORI LOBENSTINE, YASMIN PEREIRA, JENNY WHITLEY, JESSICA ROBLES, YARALIZ SOTO, JEANETTE SERGEANT, DAISY JIMENEZ, EMILY JIMENEZ, JESSENIA ORTIZ, AND SASHA CIRINO

Contributor Biographies

265

(6)

Index

271

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All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity

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