1st Edition
Elite Girls' Schooling, Social Class and Sexualised Popular Culture
By Claire Charles
Copyright 2014
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Young women’s identities are an issue of public and academic interest across a number of western nations at the present time. This book explores how young women attending an elite school for girls understand and construct ‘empowerment’. It investigates the extent to which, and the ways in which, their constructions of empowerment and identity work to overturn, or resist, key regulations and... Read more
1. Beholden to No One: Elite Schoolgirls in the 21st Century 2. "Normative" Femininities: From Romance and Domesticity to Raunch and Visibility? 3. (Re)searching for Girls’ Resistance 4. Becoming "Lady Bountiful": Elite Schooling, Social Class and Girl Citizenship 5. ‘Hey Skank Face, You Can’t Dress Properly!’: Revisiting Sexuality and Social Class 6. ‘She’s Doing it for Herself’: Negotiating Sexualised Popular Culture 7. Conclusions: "Elite" Schoolgirls, Normative Femininities/Sexualities and Resistance
Biography
Claire Charles is Lecturer in Education Studies at Deakin University, Australia.
