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Girlhood : redefining the limits
- Title
- Girlhood : redefining the limits / Yasmin Jiwani, Claudia Mitchell, Candis Steenbergen, editors.
- Publication
- Montreal : Black Rose Books, ©2006.
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- Description
- xvii, 267 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Girlhood is a collection of essays on girls, girlhood and girl culture, focussing on the multifaceted nature of girls' lived experiences. Examined is racism, sexism and classism; girlhood and girl gangs; the power and politics of schoolgirl style; encounters with violence; chatrooms; sexuality; and identity formation and popular culture.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Girls > Canada > Social conditions > 21st century
- Teenage girls > Canada > Social conditions > 21st century
- Girls > Violence against > Canada
- Girls > Social conditions > 21st century
- Teenage girls > Social conditions > 21st century
- Girls in popular culture
- Girls > Social conditions
- Teenage girls > Social conditions
- Canada
- Note
- "Black Rose books no. II345."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264).
- Contents
- Aboriginal girls in Canada: living histories of dislocation, exploitation and strength / Pamela J. Downe -- Survivor stories, surviving narratives: autobiography, memory and trauma across generations / Hourig Attarian, Hermig Yogurtian -- Les filles Francophones au pluriel: opening up girlhood studies to Francophones / Rachel Gouin, Fathiya Wais -- Violence in the lives of girls in Canada: creating spaces of understanding and change / Yasmin Hussein, Helene Berman, Romy Poletti, Rian Lougheed-Smith, Azmina Ladha, Ashley Ward, Barb MacQuarrie -- Racialized violence and girls and young women of colour / Yasmin Jiwani -- Locality, participatory action research, and racialized girls' struggles for citizenship / Jo-Anne Lee -- POWER camp national/Filles d'Action: working with/(in)tention / Tatiana Fraser, Sarah Mangle -- Sugar and spice and something more than nice? Queer girls and transformations of social exclusion / Marnina Gonick -- Talking (behind your) back: young women and resistance / Rebecca Raby -- "I'm going to crush you like a bug": understanding girls' agency and empowerment / Dawn H. Currie, Deirdre M. Kelly -- "Did you see what she was wearing?" The power and politics of schoolgirl style / Shauna Pomerantz -- From the curse to the rag: Online gURLs rewrite the menstruation narrative / Michele Polak -- Pretty in panties: moving beyond the innocent child paradigm in reading preteen modeling websites / Sophie Wertheimer -- I am (a) Canadien(ne): canadian girls and television culture / Michele Byers.
- ISBN
- 155164276X
- 1551642778
- 9781551642765
- 9781551642772
- LCCN
- 9781551642765
- 9781551642772
- OCLC
- ocm59876110
- 59876110
- SCSB-1429512
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library