Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Notes on Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime -- Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies -- Good Girls, Bad Girls: Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood -- From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood -- Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong -- Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance -- Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the "Girl" in Feminist Discourse -- I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain -- Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities -- Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience -- Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-only Education in the United States -- Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual -- Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture -- Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer Citizenship -- Girls' Web Sites: A Virtual "Room of One's Own"? -- Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education -- Girls, Schooling, and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom -- Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School -- Colluding in "Compulsory Heterosexuality"? Doing Research with Young Women at School -- Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Womyn of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women -- Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home Front.

Possible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.

This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from leaders in the field like Michelle Fine, Angela McRobbie, Valerie Walkerdine, Nancy Lesko, Niobe Way and Deborah Tolman, this work brings to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women. The contributors cover all aspects of girlhood from around the world and strike upon such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity. This is new scholarship at its best.

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