Invisible girls
Subtitle: at risk adolescent girls' writing within and beyond school
By: Mellinee Lesley
Series: Adolescent cultures, school, and society -- 58
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433114946; 9781433114939; 9781453905708
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Teenage girls; Teenagers with social disabilities; English language; Creative writing (Secondary); Composition and exercises; Education; Dropouts; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "In middle school, you like do the most growing up": exploring writing with adolescent girls; title: "I got no place else to go after school": theories and narratives of what places adolescent girls "at risk" for dropping out of school; title: "If I feel like writing, it's easier": adolescent girls' discourse models of writing in and out of school; title: "My poem to someone I loved and I ruined it!":; title: Dating roles and cultural models of gender; title: "If a girl tell that other girl that they not afraid of her that turns into a fight": fighting for power in and through writing; title: "My mom sometimes she could be like cool": seeking common ground in the labyrinth of writing to, for and about mothers; title: "I have to remember it's writing and not texting": composing on the other side of the digital divide; title: Writing in the third space as a way to bring at-risk adolescent girls out of the periphery of school.