Publication

2003-09-01 - State University of New York Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002042634
  • Goodreads549015

Classifications

  • LCCHQ777 .G65 2003

Description

"Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category "girl", Marnina Gonick analyzes the discourses and practices defining female sexuality, embodiment, relationship to self and other, material culture, use of social space, and cultural-political agency and power. Based on a school-community project involving collaborative production of a video which tells the stories of several fictional girl characters, Gonick examines the contradictory and textured structure of the discourses available to girls through which their identities are negotiated. Woven throughout the book is the integral concern with the way in which ethnographic writing as a discursive practice is also implicated in the production and signification of social identities for girls."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls (Suny Series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations)PaperbackState University of New York Press2003-09-01

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