Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls (Suny Series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791458303
Subjects: Education; Women's studies; Maturation (Psychology); Feminist psychology; Gender Studies; Students & Student Life; Research; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Children's Studies; Developmental - Adolescent; Girls; Psychology
Description: "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."--Jacket.