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Becoming Girl: Collective Biography & the Production of Girlhood
Gonick Gannon
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Description for Becoming Girl: Collective Biography & the Production of Girlhood
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Becoming Girl interrogates the everyday of girlhood through the collaborative feminist methodology of collective biography. Located within the emergent interdisciplinary field of girlhood studies, this scholarly collection demonstrates how memories can be used to investigate the ways in which girlhood is culturally, historically, and socially constructed. Narrative vignettes of memory are produced and collaboratively investigated to explore relations of power, longing, and belonging, and to critically examine the ways in which girlhood is constituted. These are snapshot moments that, when analyzed, expose the social, embodied, and affective processes of “becoming girl,” making them visible in new ways. Incorporating the concepts ... Read more
Becoming Girl interrogates the everyday of girlhood through the collaborative feminist methodology of collective biography. Located within the emergent interdisciplinary field of girlhood studies, this scholarly collection demonstrates how memories can be used to investigate the ways in which girlhood is culturally, historically, and socially constructed. Narrative vignettes of memory are produced and collaboratively investigated to explore relations of power, longing, and belonging, and to critically examine the ways in which girlhood is constituted. These are snapshot moments that, when analyzed, expose the social, embodied, and affective processes of “becoming girl,” making them visible in new ways. Incorporating the concepts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Women's Press of Canada
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780889615137
SKU
V9780889615137
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About Gonick Gannon
Marnina Gonick is Canada Research Chair in Gender at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is the author of Between Femininities: Identity, Ambivalence and the Education of Girls (2003) and co-author of Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change (2004). Susanne Gannon is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is co-author of Place Pedagogy ... Read more
Reviews for Becoming Girl: Collective Biography & the Production of Girlhood
Becoming Girl reorients and reimagines what it means to research the girl in girlhood studies through an innovative theoretical engagement with the collective biography method. This is a powerful collection that opens up the methodological imagination of what (else) feminist qualitative inquiry can do. Read this collection and become entangled with your own girling memories. - Emma Renold, Cardiff University, ... Read more