Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.
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This is an outstanding book, a wonderfully rich analysis of the changed landscape of growing up female in the Western world. It deserves to be read widely inside and outside of the academic community.
–Angela McRobbie, author of Feminism and Youth Culture
Are girls and women better off now? Yes! No! Anita Harris demonstrates that both answers are correct in her original and important analysis of contemporary girls. Harris locates the politics of girlhood within the shifting contours of risk society and the emphasis on future achievement as dependent on individual choice and responsible self-making. Harris also reads current scholarship on citizenship, spaces of regulation, and voice alongside girls' multifaceted opportunities and constraints in risky times. Harris's portrait of the contemporary politics of girlhood is lively reading and first-rate scholarship.
–Nancy Lesko, author of Act Your Age! A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
–Angela McRobbie, author of Feminism and Youth Culture
Are girls and women better off now? Yes! No! Anita Harris demonstrates that both answers are correct in her original and important analysis of contemporary girls. Harris locates the politics of girlhood within the shifting contours of risk society and the emphasis on future achievement as dependent on individual choice and responsible self-making. Harris also reads current scholarship on citizenship, spaces of regulation, and voice alongside girls' multifaceted opportunities and constraints in risky times. Harris's portrait of the contemporary politics of girlhood is lively reading and first-rate scholarship.
–Nancy Lesko, author of Act Your Age! A Cultural Construction of Adolescence
About the Author
Anita Harris is Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. She was formerly a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York.
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Since the early 1990s young womanhood has become a topic central to debates within Western societies about cultural and economic change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
privileged young women, youth job market, young femininity, youth citizenship, delayed motherhood, future girl, youthful femininity, youth voice, youth researchers, street literacy, ways young women, mainstream experience, youth studies, border spaces, youth participation, youth leisure, youth politics, postcommunist countries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Army Reserve, Young Urban Womyn of Color, Chris Griffin, Howard Williamson, Johanna Wyn, New Zealand, Spice Girls, Nikki Webster, Susan Hopkins, Alan France, Council of Europe, Dorothy Bottrell, Growing Up Girl, Mary Pipher, Olympic Games, Pacific Islander, Signithia Fordham, Tatiana Grigorieva New!
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Since the early 1990s young womanhood has become a topic central to debates within Western societies about cultural and economic change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
privileged young women, youth job market, young femininity, youth citizenship, delayed motherhood, future girl, youthful femininity, youth voice, youth researchers, street literacy, ways young women, mainstream experience, youth studies, border spaces, youth participation, youth leisure, youth politics, postcommunist countries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Army Reserve, Young Urban Womyn of Color, Chris Griffin, Howard Williamson, Johanna Wyn, New Zealand, Spice Girls, Nikki Webster, Susan Hopkins, Alan France, Council of Europe, Dorothy Bottrell, Growing Up Girl, Mary Pipher, Olympic Games, Pacific Islander, Signithia Fordham, Tatiana Grigorieva New!
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- Critical Psychology (Critical Psychology Series) (No 4) by Michelle Fine on 6 pages
- Girl Power (Spice Girls) by Clive Dickenson on 4 pages
- Youth Citizenship and Social Change in a European Context Hb by Ly ynner John Chis on 4 pages
- Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture by Tricia Rose in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity by Anita Harris on page 14, and Back Matter
- Talking Adolescence (Language As Social Action) by Crispin Thurlow on page 31, and page 33
- All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity by Anita Harris on page 14, and Back Matter
- Medi@sia: Global Media/tion in and Out of Context by T.J.M. Holden on page 79
- Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling, And Social Change (Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, and Education) by Julie McLeod in Back Matter
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