| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series, power, social identity, and education |
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SUNY series, power, social identity, and education.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Inside best academy: socialization in the private girls' school -- Chapter 3: Class identities in the borderlands -- Chapter 4: Race identities in the borderlands -- Chapter 5: On the horizon/at the frontier: girls' projections for the future -- Chapter 6: Schools our daughters -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: repositioning identities at/in the center -- Appendix: Methodology and research design |
| Summary |
Complementing the several recent studies of how boys take active roles in shaping their personal identities, Proweller (education, DePaul U.) explores one year in the lives of 34 adolescent girls at a historically elite, private, single-sex high school. She finds that the school is less homogeneous and stable along class and race lines than educationists have imagined; and that school officials and parents weave a story of complex and contradictory moments of meaning as the girls mold themselves into raced, classed, and gendered beings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-277) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Education (Secondary) -- Social aspects -- United States
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Middle class women -- Education (Secondary) -- United States
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Women -- Socialization -- United States
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Women -- Identity.
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EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
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Women -- Identity
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Women -- Socialization
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585092508 |
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9780585092508 |
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9780791437728 |
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0791437728 |
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