Constructing female identities : meaning making in an upper middle class youth culture /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Proweller, Amira
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Series:SUNY series, power, social identity, and education.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States.
Middle class women > Education (Secondary) > United States.
Women > Socialization > United States.
Women > Identity.
Adolescentes > Enseignement secondaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Femmes de la classe moyenne > Enseignement secondaire > États-Unis.
Femmes > Socialisation > États-Unis.
Femmes > Identité.
EDUCATION > Students & Student Life.
Women > Identity
Women > Socialization
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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