Between femininities : ambivalence, identity, and the education of girls / Marnina Gonick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonick, Marnina.

Series:

SUNY series, second thoughts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Psychology.

Girls.

Maturation (Psychology).

Feminist psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Points of Departure and Disrupted Arrivals: Negotiating the Research Terrain

Crystal’s Story: The Bad Girl Within

Tori’s Story: Becoming Somebody

The Good, the Bad, the Smart, and the Popular: Living Ambivalence

Reprise

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8634-6

1-4175-0095-6

OCLC:

61367803