'Girl Power'

Author: Dawn Currie
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820488776
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
'Girl Power': Girls Reinventing Girlhood examines the identity practices of girls who have grown up in the context of 'girl power' culture. The book asks whether - and which - girls have benefited from this feminist-inspired movement. Can girls truly become anything they want, as suggested by those who claim that the traditional mandate of femininity - compliance to male interests - is a thing of the past? To address such questions, the authors distinguish between 'girlhood' as a cultural ideal, and girls as the embodied agents through which girlhood becomes a social accomplishment. The book identifies significant issues for parents and teachers of girls, and offers suggestions for 'critical social literacy' as a classroom practice that recognizes the ways popular culture mediates young people's understanding of gender. 'Girl Power' will be of interest to researchers of contemporary gender identities, as well as educational professionals and adult girl advocates. It is relevant for students in gender studies and teacher-education courses, as well as graduate student researchers.

All About the Girl

Author: Anita Harris
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135938792
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.

Girl Culture [2 volumes]

Author: Claudia Mitchell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313084440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 749

Book Description
Never before has so much popular culture been produced about what it means to be a girl in today's society. From the first appearance of Nancy Drew in 1930, to Seventeen magazine in 1944 to the emergence of Bratz dolls in 2001, girl culture has been increasingly linked to popular culture and an escalating of commodities directed towards girls of all ages. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and beyond, Girl Culture tackles numerous hot-button issues, including the recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits: body image, peer pressure, cliques, gangs, and plastic surgery are among the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. Comprehensive in its coverage of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, fashion, literature, film, in-group rituals and hot-button issues that shape—and are shaped by—girl culture, this two-volume resource offers a wealth of information to help students, educators, and interested readers better understand the ongoing interplay between girls and mainstream culture.

Sex and the Slayer

Author: Lorna Jowett
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567581
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
The author aims "to demonstrate in this book not how "feminist" or "progressive" the show is but how it represents femininity, masculinity, and gender relations, including sexuality, and how this relates to the context of genre. The book aims to draw out ... patterns of gender representation and to relate these to relevant contexts".--Intro.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

Author: Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529721954
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 4171

Book Description
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Social Constructions of Childhood Children’s Rights Politics/Representations/Geographies Child-specific Research Methods Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood Theories and Theorists Key Concepts This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in: Childhood Studies Sociology/Anthropology Psychology/Education Social Welfare Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies

BITCHfest

Author: Lisa Miya-Jervis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374113438
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
Offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from Bitch magazine's first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for this collection.

Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies

Author: Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791472989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Case study of the life of a feminist organization in a changing political and funding climate.

Girls' Studies

Author: Elline Lipkin
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 0786744634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies—the socialization of girls versus boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future.

Third Wave Feminism

Author: S. Gillis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230593666
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
This revised and expanded edition, new in paperback, provides a definitive collection on the current period in feminism known by many as the 'third wave'. Three sections - genealogies and generations, locales and locations, politics and popular culture - interrogate the wave metaphor and, through questioning the generational account of feminism, indicate possible future trajectories for the feminist movement. New to this edition are an interview with Luce Irigaray, a foreword by Imelda Whelehan as well as newly commissioned chapters.

EGirls, ECitizens

Author: Valerie Steeves
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776622595
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives. Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore the interplay of factors that shape online environments characterized by a gendered gaze and too often punctuated by sexualized violence. Perhaps most importantly, this collection offers first-hand perspectives collected from girls and young women themselves, providing a unique window on what it is to be a girl in today’s digitized society.