Difficult dialogues about twenty-first-century girls / edited by Donna Marie Johnson and Alice E. Ginsberg ; contributors, Laura Boutwell [and seventeen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Donna Marie, editor.

Ginsberg, Alice E., editor.

Boutwell, Laura, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--United States--History--21st century.

Girls.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Women's studies--History.

Women's studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword: Difficult Dialogues; References; Acknowledgments; Donna Marie Johnson; Alice E. Ginsberg; Introduction: Girls' Studies What's New?; Chapter Outlines; Part I: New Ways of Knowing About Girls; Chapter 1 Disrupting Invisibility: Education Scholarship Meeting the Needs of African American Elementary and Secondary School Girls; Equal Educational Opportunity for All; Black School Girls and Racial Disparities in School Discipline; Exclusionary Discipline, the Application of Zero Tolerance Policies and Black School Girls

Black School Girls and the School to Prison PipelineAfrican American School Girls: Seen and Unseen; Why Has There Been So Little Research About the School Lives of African American Girls?; The White House Council on Women and Girls: An Integration Approach to Gender Equality and Public Policy; My Brother's Keeper vs White House Initiatives Supporting Black School Girls; African American Girls as Outlaws; Black Girls, Black Education and Girls' Studies Scholarship; Black Girlhood: A Second Tier of Invisibility in Research; African American School Girls Need Allies

Black Girls Studies within the Field of Girls StudiesDifficult Dialogue Questions and Activities; References; Chapter 2 Girl Uninterrupted: Using Interactive Voice Diaries as a Girls' Studies Research Method; The Method; Girls' Voices; Delilah's Cassette; In the Worlds of Girls; The Interviewer's "Probes"; Analysis; Conclusion; Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities; Notes; References; Chapter 3 "It Means that I Am Knowledge": GirlPAR as an Emergent Methodology; The Imani Nailah Project; Youth Participatory Action Research; Where the Girls Are: GirlPAR as an Emergent Methodology

Eroding Discursive and Structural BarriersMerging Scholarship with Relational Activism; Intersubjectivity as Knowledge Production; Learning with Girls: Ways of Achieving GirlPAR; Authorship; Confidentiality; Chosen Inclusion; Knowledge Production; Research Dissemination; Conclusion: GirlPAR in Action; Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities; Notes; References; Chapter 4 "Talking Out of School": Crossing and Extending Borders with Collaborative Research in Girls' Studies, Women's Studies, and Teacher Education; Introduction to the VOGUS Project; Context: Between Two Worlds; Methods

Learning/ProcessConclusion: Projected Implications; Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Stop Saving the Girl? Pedagogical Considerations for Transforming Girls' Studies; Difficult Dialogues: Teaching Transnational Girls' Studies; Girls and "Development": Interrogating the Construct of the Vulnerable Girl; The Politics of Activism; Girls in Conflict Zones; Transnational Activism; Research with Girls; Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Beyond "Us" Versus "Them": Transnationalizing Girlhood Studies

Inside or Outside? Placing My Work in a Girls' Studies Frame

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438455990

1438455992

OCLC:

924716687