All About the Girl : Culture, Power, and Identity (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Foreword: Michelle Fine Introduction: Anita Harris Part 1: Constructing Girlhoods in the Twenty-First Century: Chapter 1: Notes on Post Feminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime, Angela McRobbie Chapter 2: Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies, Janie Victoria Ward and Beth Cooper Benjamin Chapter 3: Good Girls, Bad girls: Anglo-centrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood, Christine Griffin Chapter 4: From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood, Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin Part 2: Feminism for Girls Chapter 5: Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Chapter 6: Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance, Jessica Taft Chapter 7: Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the Girl in Feminist Discourse, Jennifer Eisenhauer Chapter 8: I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists: Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain, Madeleine Jowett Part 3: Sexualities Chapter 9: Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities, Kate Gleeson and Hannah Frith Chapter 10: Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience, Anne Marie Tupuola Chapter 11: Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-Only Education in the US, April Burns and Mar #237;a Elena Torre Part 4: Popular and Virtual Cultures Chapter 12: Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual, Debbie Weekes Chapter 13: Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture, Bettina Fritzsche Chapter 14: Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship, Anita Harris Chapter 15: Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual Room of One's Own? Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell Part 5: Schooling Chapter 16: Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education, Nancy Lesko and Antoinette Quarshie Chapter 17: Girls, Schooling and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom, Amy L. Best Chapter 18: Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School, Mary Jane Kehily Part 6: Research With and By Young Women Chapter 19: Colluding in Compulsory Heterosexuality? Doing Research With Young Women at School, Kathryn Morris-Roberts Chapter 20: Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Woman of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women, Caitlin Cahill and the Fed Up Honeys: Erica Arenas, Jennifer Contreras, Jiang Na, Indra Rios-Moore, and Tiffany Threatts Chapter 21: Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home Front, Adreanne Ormond Chapter 22: Possible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm, Lori Lobenstine, Yasmin Pereira, Jenny Whitley, Jessica Robles, Yaraliz Soto, Jeanette Sergeant, Daisy Jimenez, Emily Jimenez, Jessenia Ortiz, and Sasha Cirino Contributor Biographies Index