Talking Young Femininities

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Transcription Conventions......Page 11
1 Girls' Talk as a Resource for Identity Construction......Page 14
The discursive construction of (gender) identities......Page 16
The girls' talk......Page 19
Analysing girls' talk......Page 22
Overview of chapters......Page 26
Part I: Talking Young Femininities: Identity and the Interplay Between Gender, Ethnicity and Social Class......Page 32
2 Cool and Socially Aware Private-School Girls......Page 36
Socially aware girls......Page 38
Cool girls......Page 47
Real girls......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 74
3 Sheltered but Independent East End Girls......Page 77
Mothers and daughters......Page 80
Loving families......Page 97
Grown-ups or adolescents?......Page 106
Conclusion......Page 115
4 Tough and Respectable British Bangladeshi Girls......Page 118
British Asian identities: a crossdisciplinary overview......Page 119
Tough girls: truanting and teasing......Page 122
Respectable girls: balancing discourses of love and dating......Page 136
Traditions of marriage......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 160
Part II: Sex Talk and the Construction of Young Femininities......Page 164
5 Self-disclosing Sex Talk: Self-determined Girls......Page 172
Direct approach to sex talk......Page 173
Personal self disclosure......Page 175
Pro-sex discourse......Page 177
Discourses of morality, romance, pleasure, resistance and self-determination......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 199
6 Playful Sex Talk: 'Good Girls' and 'Bad Girls'......Page 201
Strategies to prevent serious sex talk......Page 203
Sex talk in a playful frame......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 227
7 Impersonal Sex Talk: Knowing Girls......Page 229
Academic sex talk......Page 230
Sex talk about others......Page 240
Childhood sex talk......Page 246
Conclusion......Page 255
8 Conclusions......Page 257
Notes......Page 263
Bibliography......Page 267
E......Page 280
M......Page 281
Y......Page 282