Geographies of Girlhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Girlhood write by Pamela J. Bettis. This book was released on 2005-03-23. Geographies of Girlhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between explores how adolescent girls come to understand themselves as female in this culture, particularly during a time when they are learning what it means to be a woman and their identities are in-between that of child and adult, girl and woman. It illuminates the everyday realities of adolescent girls and the real issues that concern them, rather than what adult researchers think is important to adolescent girls. The contributing authors take seriously what girls have to say about themselves and the places and discursive spaces that they inhabit daily. Rather than focusing on girls in the classroom, the book explores adolescent female identity in a myriad of kid-defined spaces both in-between the formal design of schooling, as well as outside its purview--from bedrooms to school hallways to the Internet to discourses of cheerleading, race, sexuality, and ablebodiness. These are the geographies of girlhood, the important sites of identity construction for girls and young women. This book is situated within the fledgling field of Girls Studies. All chapters are based on field research with adolescent girls and young women; hence, the voices of girls themselves are primary in every chapter. All of the authors in the text use the notion of liminality to theorize the in-between spaces and places of schools that are central to how adolescent girls construct a sense of self. The focus of the book on the fluidity of femininity highlights the importance of race, class, sexual orientation, and other salient features of personal identity in discussions of how girls construct gendered identities in different ways. Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between challenges scholars, professionals, and students concerned with gender issues to take seriously the everyday concerns of adolescent girls. It is recommended as a text for education, sociology, and women's studies courses that address these issues.
Geographies of Girlhood
Geographies of Girlhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Girlhood write by . This book was released on 2005. Geographies of Girlhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing
Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing write by Andrea Fernández-García. This book was released on 2019-12-20. Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls’ cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers. By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls’ development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds.
Geographies of Girlhood
Geographies of Girlhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Girlhood write by Pamela J. Bettis. This book was released on 2005-03-23. Geographies of Girlhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the everyday lives of adolescent girls in terms of how forming one's identity--becoming somebody--takes place in a myriad of places beyond the formal classroom and curriculum.
Geographies of Muslim Women
Geographies of Muslim Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Muslim Women write by Ghazi-Walid Falah. This book was released on 2005-03-31. Geographies of Muslim Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking volume explores how Islamic discourse and practice intersect with gender relations and broader political and economic processes to shape women's geographies in a variety of regional contexts. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplinary subfields and perspectives--cultural geography, political geography, development studies, migration studies, and historical geography--yet they share a common focus on bringing issues of space and place to the forefront of analyses of Muslim women's experiences. Themes addressed include the intersections of gender, development and religion; mobility and migration; and discourse, representation, and the contestation of space. In the process, the book challenges many stereotypes and assumptions about the category of "Muslim woman," so often invoked in public debate in both traditional societies and the West.
