Publication

1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1020118
  • Goodreads3669776

Classifications

  • DDC305.23
  • LCCHQ777 .R665 1998

Description

This book, filled with voices of young girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle-school girls - from the working poor and the middle class - Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes.

Subjects

Topics

WomenGirlsSex roleAttitudesPsychologyCase studiesSocialization

Other Editions

  • Raising their voices: the politics of girls' angerHarvard University Press1998-01-01

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