Future Girl by Anita Harris

Future Girl by Anita Harris

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Zusammenfassung

Girls are everywhere these days: they rule MTV and the pop charts; they are big box-office draws; they are on the covers of top-selling magazines; and they score the winning points in professional sports. This title reviews the influence of females in the 21st century.

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Future Girl by Anita Harris

Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.

"This is an outstanding book, a wonderfully rich analysis of the changed landscape of growing up female in the Western worldIt deserves to be read widely inside and outside of the academic community." -- Angela McRobbie, author of Feminism and Youth Culture
"Are girls and women better off now? Yes! No! Anita Harris demonstrates that both answers are correct in her original and important analysis of contemporary girls. Harris locates the politics of girlhood within the shifting contours of risk society and the emphasis on future achievement as dependent on individual choice and responsible self-making. Harris also reads current scholarship on citizenship, spaces of regulation, and voice alongside girls' multifaceted opportunities and constraints in risky times. Harris's portrait of the contemporary politics of girlhood is lively reading and first-rate scholarship." -- Nancy Lesko, author of ActYour Age! A Cultural Construction of Adolescence

Anita Harris is Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. She was formerly a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York.

SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780415947022
ISBN 10 0415947022
Titel Future Girl
Autor Anita Harris
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2003-12-19
Seitenanzahl 240
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