Raising their voices : the politics of girls' anger
This book, filled with voices of young girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle-school girls - from the working poor and the middle class - Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes
Print Book, English, 1999
1st Harvard Univ. Press pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999
Case studies
xii, 259 pages ; 23 cm
9780674747210, 9780674838710, 0674747216, 0674838718
51608965
Preface 1. Stones in the Road 2. Privileging Difference 3. Mansfield Living outside the Lines 4. Acadia: The Conventions of Imagination 5. Voice and Ventriloquation in Girls' Development 6. Resisting Femininity 7. The Madgirl in the Classroom 8. Educating the Resistance Notes References Acknowledgments Index