All about the girl : culture, power, and identity / edited by Anita Harris ; with a foreword by Michelle Fine.
The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.