Understanding teenage girls : culture, identity, and schooling / Horace R. Hall with Andrea Brown-Thirston.
Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Education,
©2011.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body image, community violence, pregnancy, and education. The authors also emphasize the incredible resiliency that young women possess in countering many of the social barriers confronting them. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 107 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781610480529 161048052X 9786612977152 6612977159 9781282977150 1282977156 |