Daughters of Suburbia

Growing Up White, Middle Class, and Female
Herausgeber: Kenny, Lorraine

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Produktbeschreibung

Part ethnography, part cultural study, this text examines the lives of teenage girls from the world of the Long Island, New York, middle school in order to explore how standards of normalcy define gender, exercise power, and reinforce the cultural practices of whiteness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528533
• ISBN-10: 0813528534
• Artikelnr.: 22028928

Autorenporträt

LORRAINE KENNY is currently the Public Education Coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project. She has taught anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments        
Introduction: Truth or Dare        
Raising Teenage Girls: Suburban Landscapes and the Culture of Privilege
My Story: Learning to Love the Unlovable
Amy Fisher Justify My Love: The Heterosexuality of Teenage Girlhood
Among Friends: Stories That Make a Normal Life Possible
I Was a Teenage White Supremacist
Learning to Tell White Lies: Living with the Other in the Anti-Other
America
Conclusion: Listening to White Girls' Stories        
Epilogue: On Writing Behind Girls' Backs      
Notes      
Bibliography      
Index