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Constructing female identities : meaning making in an upper middle class youth culture
- Title
- Constructing female identities : meaning making in an upper middle class youth culture / Amira Proweller.
- Author
- Proweller, Amira.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LC1775 .P76 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 284 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Complementing the several recent studies of how boys take active roles in shaping their personal identities, Proweller (education, DePaul U.) explores one year in the lives of 34 adolescent girls at a historically elite, private, single-sex high school. She finds that the school is less homogeneous and stable along class and race lines than educationists have imagined; and that school officials and parents weave a story of complex and contradictory moments of meaning as the girls mold themselves into raced, classed, and gendered beings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
- Subject
- Teenage girls > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States
- Middle class women > Education (Secondary) > United States
- Women > Socialization > United States
- Women > Identity
- Women > Socialization
- Jugendkultur
- Oberschicht
- Mädchen
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Mädchenbildung
- High school
- Identitätsentwicklung
- Schule
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-277) and index.
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Inside best academy: socialization in the private girls' school -- Chapter 3: Class identities in the borderlands -- Chapter 4: Race identities in the borderlands -- Chapter 5: On the horizon/at the frontier: girls' projections for the future -- Chapter 6: Schools our daughters -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: repositioning identities at/in the center -- Appendix: Methodology and research design.
- ISBN
- 079143771X
- 9780791437711
- 0791437728
- 9780791437728
- 0585092508
- 9780585092508
- LCCN
- 97035900
- OCLC
- ocm37457904
- 37457904
- SCSB-362560
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library