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"It's just easier not to go to school" : adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school / Lori Olafson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olafson, Lori, 1961-
- Series:
- Adolescent cultures, school & society ; v. 28.
- Adolescent cultures, school & society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--Education (Secondary)--Social aspects--United States.
- Teenage girls.
- Middle school students--United States--Social conditions.
- Middle school students.
- Body image in women--Social aspects.
- Body image in women.
- Body image in adolescence.
- Social aspects.
- Teenage girls--Education (Secondary).
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Body image in adolescence--Social aspects--United States.
- Body image in women--Social aspects--United States.
- Feminism and education--United States.
- Feminism and education.
- Physical Description:
- x, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- "A more complete telling"
- Interpreting resistance
- Reconstructing life stories
- Theoretical framework : bodies, relationships of power, and regimes of truth
- Regimes of the body
- Schooling the body in physical education
- "The impossible belly of impossibility."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-163) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820467626
- OCLC:
- 55679674
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