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An investigation into the complex processes of "becoming a girl."
Arguing 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.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
What Is the "Problem" with These Girls?: School Discourses of Teenage Femininity
The Itinerary of an Idea
Itinerant Writings/Readings/Pedagogies
CHAPTER 2
Points of Departure and Disrupted Arrivals: Negotiating the Research Terrain
Knowing "Us" and "Them": Ethnographic Knowledge, and the End of Innocence
Researching Experience/Experiencing Research: Crisis in Research Epistemology and Representation
Research Geographies
Text, Talk, and Videotape: Research Methodology as Feminist Pedagogy
Notes towards a Politics of Arrival: New Ethnographic Stories
CHAPTER 3
Crystal's Story: The Bad Girl Within
Crystal's Story: Narrating the Self through Romance
Scenes of Desire: The Bad Girl Within
Scene 1: Subjectivity and Femininity
Scene 2: Bodies in Trouble: The Bad Girl Made Visible
Scene 3: Necessary Failures: Disrupting the Good Girl Story
Scene 4: Good Girls and the Disavowal of Self
CHAPTER 4
Tori's Story: Becoming Somebody
Narrating the Self from the Inside Out
Scenes of Transformation
Scene 1: From the Outside In: (Re)Dressing Social Difference
Scene 2: (Re) Situating the Self in Social Space
CONCLUSION
The Good, the Bad, the Smart, and the Popular: Living Ambivalence
Mixed Subjects: Disruptive Figures?
I. Intersections: The Bad Girl Within: Transformations beyond the Ending
II. Intersections: Becoming Somebody: Romancing the Self
Mixed Subjects, New Subjectivites, and Feminist Cultural Pedagogies
REPRISE
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX