| Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls Contributor(s): Gonick, Marnina (Author) |
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ISBN: 079145830X ISBN-13: 9780791458303 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Children's Studies - Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent |
| Dewey: 305.23 |
| LCCN: 2002042634 |
| Series: Suny Series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.72" W x 9.16" (0.70 lbs) 238 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |