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Constructing female identities : meaning making in an upper middle class youth culture / Amira Proweller.

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Complementing the several recent studies of how boys take active roles in shaping their personal identities, Proweller (education, DePaul U.) explores one year in the lives of 34 adolescent girls at a historically elite, private, single-sex high school. She finds that the school is less homogeneous...

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Main Author: Proweller, Amira
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Series:SUNY series, power, social identity, and education.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States.
Middle class women > Education (Secondary) > United States.
Women > Socialization > United States.
Women > Identity.
Women > Socialization.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Inside best academy: socialization in the private girls' school
  • Chapter 3: Class identities in the borderlands
  • Chapter 4: Race identities in the borderlands
  • Chapter 5: On the horizon/at the frontier: girls' projections for the future
  • Chapter 6: Schools our daughters
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion: repositioning identities at/in the center
  • Appendix: Methodology and research design.

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