Growing Up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class: Psycho-Social Explorations of Class and Gender - Rilegato

Walkerdine, Valerie; Lucey, Helen; Melody, June

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ISBN 10: 0814793835 ISBN 13: 9780814793831

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Throughout the Western world our social fabric is being transformed, leaving few lives untouched. Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organization of family, education, and work.

Growing Up Girl explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. It explores the complexities of class transformation as young women approach a radically altered labor market and examines the profound but different regulation to which young women of all social positions are subjected. Tracing three groups of girls from their early childhood to young adulthood, the volume sheds light on the social, cultural, and psychological dynamics confronting young women today. It highlights the fragility and the fiction of the "I can have everything" girls, providing a ground-breaking and sobering antidote to platitudes about a feminine future. Growing Up Girl is essential reading for all those concerned with the lives of girls and women today.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Valerie Walkerdine is Foundation Professor of Critical Psychology, Centre for Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney. Her books include Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity, and Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814793835
• ISBN 13: 9780814793831
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240