This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie, Valerie Walkerdine, Nancy Lesko, Niobe Way and Deborah Tolman, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This is new scholarship at its best.
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This irreverent, deliciously varied, full-bodied collection marks a coming of age for Girls' Studies. A wonderfully diverse array of scholar/activists interrogate the stuff of everyday life--from proms and thongs to girl power politics and all waves of feminism--to theorize contemporary girlhood as a transnational conversation. Most important, girls live and breathe in these pages. They create, research, analyze, consume, challenge, desire, complicate, resist, laugh, collude, and talk back. This, above all else, makes All About the Girl a gritty, intimate, unsettling, and deeply satisfying book.
–Lyn Mikel Brown, author of Raising Their Voices and Girlfighting
–Lyn Mikel Brown, author of Raising Their Voices and Girlfighting
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Anita Harris is Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. In 2000-2001, she was a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York and an invited speaker at Birmingham University.
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Good girls, bad girls, schoolgirls, Ophelias, third wavers, no wavers, B girls, riot grrrls, cybergURLs, queen bees, tweenies, Girlies: young women suddenly seem to be everywhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban womyn, collusionary practices, young womyn, negative possible selves, new gender regime, youth violence epidemic, positive possible selves, ragga music, bedroom culture, ironic myth, girl power, wave metaphor, youth researchers, clothing practices, culture jamming, research diary, fan culture, missing discourse, popular feminism, female rappers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Spice Girls, United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Open University Press, New Labour, Mad About Boys, Harvard University Press, First World, Puerto Rican, Michelle Fine, Feminist Review, Indiana University Press, Polity Press, Anita Harris, Elke Zobl, Oxford University Press, New Girl Order, Odd Girl Out, Reviving Ophelia, The Vagina Monologues, Urban Girls, Bridget Jones's Diary, Creating Identities New!
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Good girls, bad girls, schoolgirls, Ophelias, third wavers, no wavers, B girls, riot grrrls, cybergURLs, queen bees, tweenies, Girlies: young women suddenly seem to be everywhere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban womyn, collusionary practices, young womyn, negative possible selves, new gender regime, youth violence epidemic, positive possible selves, ragga music, bedroom culture, ironic myth, girl power, wave metaphor, youth researchers, clothing practices, culture jamming, research diary, fan culture, missing discourse, popular feminism, female rappers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Spice Girls, United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Open University Press, New Labour, Mad About Boys, Harvard University Press, First World, Puerto Rican, Michelle Fine, Feminist Review, Indiana University Press, Polity Press, Anita Harris, Elke Zobl, Oxford University Press, New Girl Order, Odd Girl Out, Reviving Ophelia, The Vagina Monologues, Urban Girls, Bridget Jones's Diary, Creating Identities New!
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- Feminism and Youth Culture: Second Edition by Angela McRobbie on 7 pages
- Cultural Studies by Angela McRobbie on 6 pages
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan on 4 pages
- Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons on 4 pages
- Critical Psychology (Critical Psychology Series) (No 4) by Michelle Fine on 4 pages
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- Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars by Amy L. Best in Back Matter
- The Future Of Work In Europe by Paul Littlewood on page 138
- Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney in Back Matter
- All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity by Anita Harris in Front Matter
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