Just girls : hidden literacies and life in junior high

Abstract

Highlighting the importance of friendship, family, and social networks in girls\u27 sense of themselves, this book suggests that literacy plays an important role in maintaining friendship groups and in the construction of self. This provocative new book questions many common assumptions about early adolescence, most importantly, the good girl role so often assigned to and reinforced in female studentshttps://idun.augsburg.edu/monographs/1053/thumbnail.jp