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Author:   Carrie Paechter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ,  Rosalyn George (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) ,  Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138391987

ISBN 10:   1138391980
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Pedagogical responses to the changing position of girls and young women 1. Changing times, future bodies? The significance of health in young women’s imagined futures 2. From DIY to teen pregnancy: new pathologies, melancholia and feminist practice in contemporary English youth work 3. A girl is no girl is a girl_: Girls-work after queer theory 4. ‘Too pretty to do math!’ Young women in movement and pedagogical challenges 5. Becoming accomplished: concerted cultivation among privately educated young women 6. Dissident daughters? The psychic life of class inheritance 7. Young women online: collaboratively constructing identities 8. Growing-up challenged and challenging: gender and sexuality norms in referential research on ‘internet risks’ and in children 9. Trainee hairdressers’ uses of Facebook as a community of gendered literacy practice 10. ‘Not girly, not sexy, not glamorous’: primary school girls’ and parents’ constructions of science aspirations

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Carrie Paechter is Professor of Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research centres on the intersection of gender, power and knowledge, the construction of gendered, spatialised and embodied identities, and the processes of curriculum negotiation. She is particularly interested on how children construct themselves as gendered, embodied, social actors. Rosalyn George is Professor of Education and Equality at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research is in the areas of social justice, education, and schooling, especially with regard to gender and race. Her current work focuses on recent forms of migration and its impact on the promotion of non-colour-coded racism. Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her fields of expertise are young women and popular culture; feminist theory; the new creative economy; and the rise of 'cultural labour process'. Her current research includes an investigation of the working lives of young fashion designers in London, Berlin, and Milan.

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