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Understanding teenage girls : culture, identity, and schooling / Horace R. Hall with Andrea Brown-Thirston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Horace R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--United States--Social conditions.
- Teenage girls.
- Teenage girls--Education--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book focuses on social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body image, community violence, pregnancy, and education. The authors also emphasize the incredible resiliency that young women possess in countering many of the social barriers confronting them.
- Contents:
- Start
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-31855-2
- 1-282-97715-6
- 9786612977152
- 1-61048-052-X
- OCLC:
- 702119719
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