Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of GirlsArguing 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THESE GIRLS? SCHOOL DISCOURSES OF TEENAGE FEMININITY | 2 |
THE ITINERARY OF AN IDEA | 9 |
ITINERANT WRITINGSREADINGSPEDAGOGIES | 17 |
Points of Departure and Disrupted Arrivals Negotiating the Research Terrain | 21 |
ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE END OF INNOCENCE | 22 |
CRISIS IN RESEARCH EPISTEMOLOGY AND REPRESENTATION | 28 |
RESEARCH GEOGRAPHIES | 32 |
SCENE 4 GOOD GIRLS AND THE DISAVOWAL OF SELF | 99 |
Toris Story Becoming Somebody | 105 |
NARRATING THE SELF FROM THE INSIDE OUT | 113 |
SCENES OF TRANSFORMATION | 115 |
REDRESSING SOCIAL DIFFERENCE | 118 |
SCENE 2 RESITUATING THE SELF IN SOCIAL SPACE | 128 |
The Good the Bad the Smart and the Popular Living Ambivalence | 161 |
DISRUPTIVE FIGURES? | 163 |
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AS FEMINIST PEDAGOGY | 48 |
NEW ETHNOGRAPHIC STORIES | 55 |
Crystals Story The Bad Girl Within | 61 |
NARRATING THE SELF THROUGH ROMANCE | 62 |
THE BAD GIRL WITHIN | 68 |
SCENE 1 SUBJECTIVITY AND FEMININITY | 70 |
THE BAD GIRL MADE VISIBLE | 76 |
DISRUPTING THE GOOD GIRL STORY | 92 |
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