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Growing Up Girl: Psycho-social Explorations of Gender and Class ISBN: 033364784X ISBN13: 9780333647844 Growing Up Girl: Psycho-social Explorations of Gender and Class By: Valerie Walkerdine ; Helen Lucey ; June Melody Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Format: Paperback Our Price: 21.15 Discount: 8% RRP: 22.99

Throughout the de-industrialized world, huge transformations are taking place in the social fabric, leaving few lives untouched. The shift from a manufacturing base to service and communications industries is accompanied by the decreased participation of men and the increased number of women in the labour market. Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organization of family, education and work. This book explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st examining the complex ways that wealth and poverty, class and ethnicity are forever changed but terribly present in their experiences and life chances. Providing an antidote to platitudes about girl power and a feminine future, this book is essential reading for all those concerned with the lives of girls and women.


Contents:

List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Notes on Authors - Introduction - Social Class Revisited - Worlds of Work - Working with Emotions - Class and Educational Success - Doing Well at School: Success and the Working Class Girls - The Making of the Bourgeois Subject as Feminine - Pregnancy and Young Motherhood - Conclusion - References - Index

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