Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
Late Modernity......Page 12
Why Young Women?......Page 15
Organization of the Chapters......Page 17
CHAPTER 1 THE “CAN-DO” GIRL VERSUS THE “AT-RISK” GIRL......Page 22
Investing in Girls......Page 23
Girlpower......Page 25
Success at Work......Page 26
Consumption......Page 28
Delayed Motherhood......Page 30
Young Women “At-Risk”......Page 33
Risking the Future: (Girl)power Failure......Page 34
Delinquency and Disordered Patterns of Consumption......Page 36
Teen Mothers......Page 38
The Production of Success and Failure......Page 40
Conclusion......Page 43
CHAPTER 2 JOBS FOR THE GIRLS?......Page 46
Young People, Work, and Flexibility......Page 47
Young Women in the New Economy......Page 49
Which Young Women?......Page 53
The Privileged......Page 54
Lower-Middle and Working Classes......Page 59
Lower-Working- and Underclasses......Page 62
The Stratification of Young Women within the New Economy......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 69
Changing Meanings of Citizenship......Page 70
Youth Citizenship in the New Economy......Page 73
Young Women as the New Citizens......Page 77
Work and the Citizen Mother......Page 78
The Girl Entrepreneur......Page 80
Leadership......Page 83
Ambassadress for the Nation......Page 85
Girl Soldiers......Page 86
Multicultural Citizenship......Page 89
Consumer Citizens......Page 94
Conclusion......Page 99
CHAPTER 4 SPACES OF REGULATION......Page 102
Youth and Space......Page 103
Where the Girls Are......Page 106
School......Page 107
Producing Girls Success in the Classroom......Page 109
Constructing Failure in At-Risk Programs......Page 112
Work......Page 114
The Lifestyle Workplace......Page 115
Training Schemes......Page 117
Detention......Page 119
Leisure......Page 122
Commercializing Public Space......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 127
CHAPTER 5 BEING SEEN AND BEING HEARD......Page 128
The Regulation of Interiority......Page 129
The Panic about Youth and Politics......Page 135
The Generation X Debate......Page 136
Being Seen and Heard: Youth Participation......Page 138
Participation and Girls’ Voices......Page 141
The “Civic-ization” of Youth Leisure......Page 145
Corporatizing Youth Politics: The Case of Grrrlpower......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 151
CHAPTER 6 FUTURE GIRL POLITICS......Page 154
Mapping Community......Page 156
New Politics and Border Spaces......Page 160
Zines......Page 162
The Internet......Page 163
What Border Spaces Allow......Page 165
Troubling the Can-Do and At-Risk Girl......Page 168
Critiquing Consumption......Page 174
Ambassadresses Answer Back......Page 176
Voice and Participation......Page 179
Enduring Political Effects......Page 181
Conclusion......Page 184
CONCLUSION......Page 186
APPENDIX......Page 194
NOTES......Page 198
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 214
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 236
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 240