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Multicultural Girlhood

Author : Mary E. Thomas
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439907320
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Girlhood written by Mary E. Thomas and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school turf wars are often a teenage rite of passage, but there are extremes—as when a race riot at a Los Angeles campus in the spring of 2005 resulted in a police lockdown. In her fascinating book,Multicultural Girlhood, Mary Thomas interviewed 26 Latina, Armenian, Filipina, African-American, and Anglo girls at this high school to gauge their responses to the campus violence. They all denounced the outbreak, calling for multicultural understanding and peaceful coexistence. However, as much as the girls want everyone to just “get along,” they also exhibit strong racist beliefs and validate segregated social spaces on campus and beyond. How can teenagers and “girl power” work together to empower instead of alienate multicultural groups? In her perceptive book, Thomas foregrounds the spaces of teen girlhood and the role that space plays in girls' practices that perpetuate social difference, and she explains the ways we navigate the intellectual terrain between scholarship and school yard.

Female Circumcision

Author : Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201027
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Female Circumcision written by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly debated. Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility. Human rights groups denounce the procedure as barbaric. It is estimated that between 100 million and 130 million girls and women today have undergone forms of this genital surgery. Female Circumcision gathers together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development. This volume does not focus narrowly on female circumcision as a set of ritualized surgeries sanctioned by society. Instead, the contributors explore a chain of connecting issues and processes through which the practice is being transformed in local and transnational contexts. The authors document shifts in local views to highlight processes of change and chronicle the efforts of diverse communities as agents in the process of cultural and social transformation.

Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum

Author : Liza Fiol-Matta
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558610835
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum written by Liza Fiol-Matta and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A A A The product of 13 curriculum projects that involved several hundred educators nationwide, this volume provides faculty and administrators with a guide to multicultural curricular change-especially with respect to women. While womenA represent over halfA of the college students on campus, they are still represented only minimally in the allegedly "mainstream" curriculum. Women of color are far less visible in the curriculum than white women. A A A Both the process and the results of a Ford Foundation funded project are presented here in a format that allows browsing and promotes reading straight through. The volume is divided into three major sections, the first of which highlights the actual process of faculty transformation and administrative support essential to curricular changes as it occurred on two of the participating campuses, U.C.L.A. and George Washington University. Extensive multidisciplinary faculty development syllabi are provided. A A A Section Two conatins 37 transformed undergraduate course syllabi for courses in sociology, American history and literature, and more, with brief essays describing professors' encounters with teaching the new texts. Section Three is an invaluable interdisciplinary guide to teaching about Puerto Rican women, prepared by a team of scholars at SUNY, Albany. It provided information about Puerto Rican women inside and outside Puerto Rico, as well as teaching strategies for integrating such information into the traditional curriculum. A A A This volume shows that essential educational change-to meet the diversity of U.S. students-may be somewhat slower than one would wish, and more difficult, but it is complex, challenging, and intellectually exciting.

Girlhood

Author : Jennifer Helgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547040
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Girlhood written by Jennifer Helgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.

Girlhood

Author : Jennifer Helgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549469
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Girlhood written by Jennifer Helgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.

Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya

Author : Besi Brillian Muhonja
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498534341
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya written by Besi Brillian Muhonja and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of twenty first century girlhoods and womanhoods charts a new area of scholarship on Kenya. The chapters investigate questions related to how new rituals of girlhood and womanhood that materialize when religious, indigenous, and foreign worlds encounter each other are re-structuring family and society, recasting roles, and informing fresh conceptualizations of African girlhood and womanhood. The author’s interdisciplinary analysis and writing journeys through the different stages of girlhood and womanhood as ritualized by Kenya’s 21st century middle class, and teases out the implications of these peculiarities to identity (re)creation and the restructuring of societies’ organs, and traditionally gendered institutions. Applying a critical African studies lens, the arguments in this book center women as originators of action and thought without inquiring into a male other. Essentially, this work disrupts patri-centered constructions and examinations of female bodies and identities. The resulting deductions inform on the substratum of Kenyan girls and women’s self-definitions as manifest through their experiences and ritualized practices, and articulate the impact of the performances of these bodies and identities on Kenyan and global societies.

Girlhood

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Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781556145117
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Girlhood written by and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Girls

Author : Catherine Driscoll
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231504720
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Girls written by Catherine Driscoll and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique "girl culture?" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence," and then argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. She relates the increasing public visibility of girls in western and westernized cultures to the evolution and expansion of theories about feminine adolescence in fields such as psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, history, and politics. Presenting her argument as a Foucauldian genealogy, Driscoll discusses the ways in which young women have been involved in the production and consumption of theories and representations of girls, feminine adolescence, and the "girl market."

Girlhood in the Borderlands

Author : Lilia Soto
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479838403
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Girlhood in the Borderlands written by Lilia Soto and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The why of transnational familial formations -- Growing up transnational: Mexican teenage girls and their transnational familial arrangements -- Muchachas Michoacanas: portraits of adolescent girls in a migratory town -- Migration marks: time, waiting, and desires for migration -- The telling moment: pre-crossings of Mexican teenage girls and their journeys to the border -- Imaginaries and realities: encountering the Napa Valley -- Conclusion

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies

Author : Angela Mcrobbie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913380440
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies written by Angela Mcrobbie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist analysis of young women and popular culture and a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture. Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards by Angela McRobbie brings together the Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) essays of the 1970s and ‘80s with a new introductory chapters and four new chapters of updated analysis on music, magazines, vintage fashion and youth culture. The early work provides both a feminist analysis of young women and popular culture as well as a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture and the ways in which an ideology of adolescent femininity functioned so as to subdue and restrain young women in passive and subordinate gender unequal positions. These chapters also shine a light on the kinds of methodologies being developed at Birmingham University CCCS as cultural studies was emerging as a distinct field of study. These essays when first published found their way onto the university undergraduate curriculum across the world and were translated into many languages. Adopting an intersectional perspective and engaging with questions such as the “category of the girl,” the new chapters extend the field of study in a lively and accessible sociological voice. The book will be of keen interest for students in Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies and Literary Studies.

Out of this World

Author : Holly Virginia Blackford
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807744662
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Out of this World written by Holly Virginia Blackford and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming "the eye" of the reader, use film to decode the genres of literature, master forms such as fantasy and Gothic, describe the differences between reading and viewing films, and identify only with animal rather than human characters. Blackford intertwines the vivid voices of her girl respondents with her own story of moving beyond her feminist and multicultural assumptions of how children are shaped by the stories we tell in literature. This breakthrough text presents surprising findings about how girls appreciate literature and what they enjoy about reading.

Adoption and Multiculturalism

Author : Jenny H Wills
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472074512
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Adoption and Multiculturalism written by Jenny H Wills and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.

Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies

Author : Lynn Turner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474418422
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies written by Lynn Turner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.

Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education

Author : Sharon Lamb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137601558
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education written by Sharon Lamb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a close look at how girls of color think, talk, and learn about sex and sexual ethics, how they navigate their developing sexuality through cultural stereotypes about sex and body image, and how they negotiate their sexual learning within a co-ed sex education classroom. While girls of color are often pictured as at risk or engaged in risky behavior, the analyses of focus groups and classroom discussions, show not only girls’ vulnerabilities but their strengths as they work with integrating diverse identities, media messages, school policy and history into their understanding of the sexual world they are exposed to and a part of.

Gender, Youth and Culture

Author : Anoop Nayak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137328932
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Youth and Culture written by Anoop Nayak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex. This new edition draws upon rich examples from research, popular media, and global accounts, to explore how gender is produced, consumed, regulated and performed in young lives today.

Children and young people's cultural worlds

Author : Sara Bragg
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447305825
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Children and young people's cultural worlds written by Sara Bragg and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in an increasingly media-saturated, commercial, and globalized world, children and young people in contemporary society encounter and must creatively adapt to a range of cultural phenomena. Offering a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age, Children and Young People's Cultural Worlds challenges common concepts and concerns about childhood innocence held by many adults. It examines the diversity of childhood experiences and relationships--the distinctiveness of children's worlds--and explores topics such as the consequences of age and the experience of living in different cultural contexts. Utilizing contributions from scholars in a variety of different fields, it is interdisciplinary and international in scope. Including resources for teachers and students such as learning outcomes, activities, and additional readings and commentary, this well-written and beautifully presented book will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in new perspectives on childhood in the digital age.

Gothic to Multicultural

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042024992
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Gothic to Multicultural written by A. Robert Lee and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction," twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Cooper s "The Spy," Antarctica as world-genesis in Poe s "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," the link of The Custom House and main text in Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter, reflexive codings in Melville s "Moby-Dick" and "The Confidence-Man," Henry James "Hawthorne" as self-mirroring biography, and Stephen Crane s working of his Civil War episode in "The Red Badge of Courage." Two composite lineages address apocalypse in African American fiction and landscape in women s authorship from Sarah Orne Jewett to Leslie Marmon Silko. There follow culture and anarchy in Henry James "The Princess Casamassima," text-into-film in Edith Wharton s "The Age of Innocence," modernist stylings in Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway, and roman noir in Cornell Woolrich. The collection then turns to the limitations of protest categorization for Richard Wright and Chester Himes, autofiction in J.D. Salinger s "The Catcher in the Rye," and the novel of ideas in Robert Penn Warren s late fiction. Three closing essays take up multicultural genealogy, Harlem, then the Black South, in African American fiction, and the reclamation of voice in Native American fiction. A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include "Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America" (1998), "Multicultural American Fiction: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions" (2003), which won the American Book Award for 2004, "Japan Textures: Sight and Word," with Mark Gresham (2007), and "United States: Re-viewing Multicultural American Literature" (2008).