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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lorraine KennyPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780813528533ISBN 10: 0813528534 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 01 November 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Truth or Dare Raising Teenage Girls: Suburban Landscapes and the Culture of Privilege My Story: Learning to Love the Unlovable Amy Fisher Justify My Love: The Heterosexuality of Teenage Girlhood Among Friends: Stories That Make a Normal Life Possible I Was a Teenage White Supremacist Learning to Tell White Lies: Living with the Other in the Anti-Other America Conclusion: Listening to White Girls' Stories Epilogue: On Writing Behind Girls' Backs Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"A deeply troubling, memorable account of teen girls learning the ways of whiteness, Kenny's ethnography helps us to see how a white norm is produced and maintained in suburbia and lets us eavesdrop as the girls police themselves and are policed by the media.--Maureen Reddy ""author of Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture"" This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on the social construction of whiteness and to work on U.S. popular culture. It will be of widespread interest.--Kamala Visweswaran ""author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography""" Author InformationLORRAINE KENNY is currently the Public Education Coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project. She has taught anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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