In this Book
- Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- CHAPTER 4. Tori's Story: Becoming Somebody
- pp. 105-173
- References
- pp. 195-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791486344
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
54770603
Pages
226
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No