Geographies Of Girlhood

Author : Pamela J. Bettis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135620997
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Girlhood written by Pamela J. Bettis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the everyday lives of adolescent girls in terms of how forming one's identity--becoming somebody--takes place in a myriad of places beyond the formal classroom and curriculum.

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Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Girlhood written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Fernández-García
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030201074
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing written by Andrea Fernández-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls’ cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers. By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls’ development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds.

Author : Kirsten Smith
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316160216
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Girlhood written by Kirsten Smith and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bursting with painfully accurate and sharply witty observations, a novel written in verse follows a young woman exploring first crushes, first dances, first kisses, and the many other hazards of growing up.

Author : Ghazi-Walid Falah
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572301344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Muslim Women written by Ghazi-Walid Falah and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume explores how Islamic discourse and practice intersect with gender relations and broader political and economic processes to shape women's geographies in a variety of regional contexts. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplinary subfields and perspectives--cultural geography, political geography, development studies, migration studies, and historical geography--yet they share a common focus on bringing issues of space and place to the forefront of analyses of Muslim women's experiences. Themes addressed include the intersections of gender, development and religion; mobility and migration; and discourse, representation, and the contestation of space. In the process, the book challenges many stereotypes and assumptions about the category of "Muslim woman," so often invoked in public debate in both traditional societies and the West.

Author : Dawn Currie
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488776
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Girl Power' written by Dawn Currie and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Author : Claudia Mitchell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785330179
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girlhood and the Politics of Place written by Claudia Mitchell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.

Author : Louise Holt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135191263
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Children, Youth and Families written by Louise Holt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together international experts of geographies of children, youth and families. The book provides an overview of current conceptual and theoretical debates, drawing upon cutting-edge research from across the globe. The volume is an invaluable course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, the social sciences and education.

Author : Jennifer Helgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549469
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girlhood written by Jennifer Helgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.

Author : Claudia Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313084440
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Culture [2 volumes] written by Claudia Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.