Girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies :: activism in the GirlZone /

This book explores the rise and fall of a grassroots, girl-centered organization, GirlZone, which sought to make social change on a local level. Whether skateboarding or designing Web pages, celebrating in weekend "GrrrlFests" or producing a biweekly RadioGirl program, participants in Girl...

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1. Verfasser: Sheridan, Mary P., 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores the rise and fall of a grassroots, girl-centered organization, GirlZone, which sought to make social change on a local level. Whether skateboarding or designing Web pages, celebrating in weekend "GrrrlFests" or producing a biweekly RadioGirl program, participants in GirlZone came to understand themselves as competent actors in a variety of activities they had previously thought were closed off to them. Drawing on six years of fieldwork examining GirlZone from its inception until its demise, the author offers insights on the current state of and study of literacy in the extracurriculum. She addresses how girls have become cultural flashpoints reflecting societal-and particularly feminist-anxieties and hopes about the present and the future. This book does more than chronicle the pressure girls face; it offers advice on how feminists, cultural critics, and activists can effect social change on local levels, even in today's increasingly globalized contexts.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
ISBN:9781435638983
1435638980
9780791479063
0791479064

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