41 research outputs found
PenQuest Volume 1, Number 2
Table of Contents for this Volume:
Untitled by Julie Ambrose
Night by Judith Gallo
Untitled by Judy Gozdur
the shamans by Charles Riddles
Untitled by Jerry Connell
Untitled by Laura Woods
Untitled by LEMA
Wicked Bird by Laura Jo Last
Untitled by Rick Dentos
Untitled by Jeni Moody
Untitled by Bettie W. Kwibs
Untitled by Joann Stagg
The Protector Stood by Laura Jo Last
Visions of Salome by Charles Riddles
Untitled by Thomas Tutten
Kennesaw Line by Don Ova-Dunaway
Stone Blood by Mary Ellen C. Wofford
Untitled by Roger Whitt Jr.
Untitled by C. Wingate
Untitled by Doug Dorey
Untitled by Karen Blumberg
Untitled by Beverly Oviatt
Untitled by Virginia Shrader
The Crapulous Credo of Charles C. by Charles Riddles
the brave and the true by David Reed
Untitled by Charles Gutierrez
Canoe Creek by Patricia Kraft
Untitled by Linda Bobinger
The Man in the Iron Lung by Patricia Kraft
Untitled by Roger Whitt, Jr.
Childish Things by Kathleen Gay
Untitled by Joseph Avanzini
The Lover by Mary S. Aken
Untitled by Ann Harrington
And He Taketh Away by David Reed
Untitled by Mary Graham
Untitled by Melody A. Cummons
Untitled by Karen Blumberg
To The Poets by Judith Gallo
Untitled by Ann Harringto
Women without class: girls, race, and identity
In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to explain class and racial/ethnic differences among themselves, Bettie depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The title, Women Without Class, refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural capital to enable class mobility, to the fact that class analysis and social theory has remained insufficiently transformed by feminist and ethnic studies, and to the fact that some feminist analysis has itself been complicit in the failure to theorize women as class subjects. Bettie's research and analysis make a case for analytical and political attention to class, but not at the expense of attention to other axes of identity and social formations
Talking Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes About Security, Dispute Resolution, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia
Responsible Girlhood and 'Healthy' Anxieties in Britain: Girls' Bodily Learning in School Sport
This chapter situates public health concerns around childhood obesity within a broader trend towards 'healthification.' I draw on scholarly research on the body and schooling as well as on longitudinal research into girls' sports involvement in the UK in order to make sense of how young girls construct themselves as 'healthy subjects' and perform 'successful girlhood'. I understand 'risk' as a regulatory discourse which constructs specific versions of girlhood as acceptable, desirable, and importantly responsible in ongoing efforts to avoid certain dangers, such as obesity. I consider the ways in which obesity as a 'discourse of anxiety' came to regulate girls' activities and available identities in school and in relation to dieting regimes and advertising campaigns