"It's just easier not to go to school"
Subtitle: adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school
By: Lori Olafson.
Series: Adolescent cultures, school, and society,; v. 28; Adolescent cultures, school & society ;; v. 28.
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Teenage girls -- Education (Secondary) -- Social aspects -- United States; Middle school students -- Social conditions -- United States; Body image in adolescence -- Social aspects -- United States; Body image in women -- Social aspects -- United States; Feminism and education -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "A more complete telling"; title: Interpreting resistance; title: Theoretical framework : bodies, relationships of power, and regimes of truth; title: Regimes of the body; title: Schooling the body in physical education; title: "The impossible belly of impossibility."