Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 284 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Complementing the several recent studies of how boys take active roles in shaping their personal identities, Proweller (education, DePaul U.) explores one year in the lives of 34 adolescent girls at a historically elite, private, single-sex high school. She finds that the school is less homogeneous and stable along class and race lines than educationists have imagined; and that school officials and parents weave a story of complex and contradictory moments of meaning as the girls mold themselves into raced, classed, and gendered beings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Series statement

1. SUNY series, power, social identity, and education

Uniform title

1. SUNY series, power, social identity, and education

Subject

1. Teenage girls > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States
2. Middle class women > Education (Secondary) > United States
3. Women > Socialization > United States
4. Women > Identity
5. Women > Socialization
6. Jugendkultur
7. Oberschicht
8. Mädchen
9. Fallstudiensammlung
10. Mädchenbildung
11. High school
12. Identitätsentwicklung
13. Schule
14. United States
15. USA

Contents

1. Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Inside best academy: socialization in the private girls' school -- Chapter 3: Class identities in the borderlands -- Chapter 4: Race identities in the borderlands -- Chapter 5: On the horizon/at the frontier: girls' projections for the future -- Chapter 6: Schools our daughters -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: repositioning identities at/in the center -- Appendix: Methodology and research design.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-277) and index.