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"It's just easier not to go to school" : adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school / Lori Olafson. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olafson, Lori, 1961-
- Series:
- Adolescent cultures, school & society ; v. 28.
- Adolescent cultures, school, and society, 1091-1464 ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--Education (Secondary)--Social aspects--United States.
- Teenage girls.
- Middle school students--Social conditions--United States.
- Middle school students.
- Body image in adolescence--Social aspects--United States.
- Body image in adolescence.
- Body image in women--Social aspects--United States.
- Body image in women.
- Feminism and education--United States.
- Feminism and education.
- Middle school students--United States--Social conditions.
- Teenage girls--Social aspects--Education (Secondary)--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 163 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 (p. [155]-163) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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