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Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls

Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls

Gonick, Marnina

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations

Child PsychologyGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 079145830X
ISBN13: 9780791458303
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Sep 11 2003
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.72 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

An investigation into the complex processes of becoming a girl.

Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category girl, Marnina Gonick analyzes the discourses and practices defining female sexuality, embodiment, relationship to self and other, material culture, use of social space, and cultural-political agency and power. Based on a school-community project involving collaborative production of a video which tells the stories of several fictional girl characters, Gonick examines the contradictory and textured structure of the discourses available to girls through which their identities are negotiated. Woven throughout the book is the integral concern with the way in which ethnographic writing as a discursive practice is also implicated in the production and signification of social identities for girls.

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