1st Edition
Girlhood, Schools, and Media Popular Discourses of the Achieving Girl
By Michele Paule
Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which girls themselves participate in such circulation. It examines the figure of the achieving girl within wider discourses of neoliberal self-management and post-feminist possibility, considering the tensions involved in being both successful and successfully feminine and the strategies... Read more
Introduction
1. The future girl’s problem past
2. The achieving girl as the ideal subject
3. The Archaeology: sites and stories
4. Girls reading girl texts: genres, tropes and trajectories
5. The ‘Girls Work Hard’ Narrative
6. ‘Girls Hang Back’: Choice, complementarity and collaboration
Conclusion
Biography
Michele Paule works as a Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Education, at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research interests focus on youth and gender in popular and educational contexts. She is currently engaged in researching youth and the gendering of leadership in across different European contexts.
