Growing Up Girl: Psycho-Social Explorations of Class and Gender (Qualitative Studies in Psychology) [Hardcover]

Valerie Walkerdine (Author), Helen Lucey (Author), June Melody (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814793835 | ISBN-13: 978-0814793831 | Publication Date: November 1, 2001

Throughout the Western world our social fabric is being transformed, leaving few lives untouched. Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organization of family, education, and work.

Growing Up Girl explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. It explores the complexities of class transformation as young women approach a radically altered labor market and examines the profound but different regulation to which young women of all social positions are subjected. Tracing three groups of girls from their early childhood to young adulthood, the volume sheds light on the social, cultural, and psychological dynamics confronting young women today. It highlights the fragility and the fiction of the "I can have everything" girls, providing a ground-breaking and sobering antidote to platitudes about a feminine future. Growing Up Girl is essential reading for all those concerned with the lives of girls and women today.

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"Without telling us what we ought to do, these women make it clear what we can do: Remember that miracles do occur and that no one, not even orthodox medicine, has all the answers." -Susun S. Weed, author of "Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, The Wise Woman Way"

About the Author

Valerie Walkerdine is Foundation Professor of Critical Psychology, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney. Her books include Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity, and Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies.

Helen Lucy lectures in the School of Education, King's College, University of London.

June Melody lives and works in west London.

June Melody lives and works in west London.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: NYU Press (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814793835
• ISBN-13: 978-0814793831
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,680,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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