| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 192 pages) |
| Contents |
Beyond the "slut" look : from incitement to identity -- Girls' style as a point of convergence -- "Where it's at" : rhetorical performances of East Side High -- "If you dress like this, then you're like that" : positions and recognitions -- "I dress the way I feel" : image, agency, and power -- Dressing the part : deep surfaces and contingent conclusions |
| Summary |
Writing against the grain of popular perception and moral panic, Shauna Pomerantz offers a fascinating look at the importance of style for girls in school. Fighting assumptions that girls today are dupes of media and capitalism, Pomerantz skillfully argues that style is a significant cultural practice that demands to be taken seriously in the lives of girls. By exploring style as social skin or a necessary condition of subjectivity, Pomerantz is able to get to the heart of the way girls negotiate a recognizable identity for themselves. Based on a year long ethnography at an urban, multicultural high school in Vancouver's east side, Pomerantz contextualizes style as a form of expression that enables girls to produce fluid and multiple identities, social networks, individual images, expressions of agency and power, and cultural affiliations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Schoolgirls -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Social conditions -- Case studies
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Schoolgirls -- Clothing -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies
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Girls -- Education (Secondary) -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies
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Women -- Identity.
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Anthropology.
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Fashion & society.
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Age groups: adolescents.
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Secondary schools.
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EDUCATION -- Secondary.
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Society.
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Women -- Identity
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British Columbia -- Vancouver
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230612501 |
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0230612504 |
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9781403982063 |
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1403982066 |
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