Title: Growing up girl : psychosocial explorations of gender and class /
Authors: Walkerdine, Valerie; Lucey, Helen, 1960-; Melody, June.
Publisher: Palgrave,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Women Social conditions.; Young women Great Britain Social conditions Longitudinal studies.; Working class women Great Britain Longitudinal studies.; Young women Employment Great Britain.; Social classes Great Britain
Abstract: Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organisation of family, education and work. This book explores the complex ways that wealth and poverty, class and ethnicity, are going to impact on the lives of girls and women today.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Social class revisited -- 3. Worlds of work -- 4. Working with emotions -- 5. class and educational success -- 6. Doing well at school: success and the working-class girls -- 7. The making of the bourgeois subjec as feminine -- 8. Pregnancy and young motherhood -- 9. Conclusion