Girls, Style, and School Identities
Dressing the Part
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Skater Girlhood: Resignifying Femininity, Resignifying Feminism
While there is general consensus that ‘gender’ is a socially and theoretically significant identity category, there is less agreement on exactly how. Disagreement reflects the emergence of previously unthinkab...
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Beyond the “Slut” Look: From Incitement to Identity
I was in a downtown coffee shop the first time I recognized it as a style. I had just settled into my seat when I looked up to see the “ass crack” of the teenage girl sitting in front of me. Her jeans were so lo...
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“Where It’s At”: Rhetorical Performances of East Side High
When I entered Ms. ripple’s grade eight Science class, it was abuzz with after-lunch excitement. Girls barely noticed my presence as I sat at an empty stool behind a dull black lab table covered in tag graffiti ...
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“I Dress the Way I Feel”: Image, Agency, and Power
As I discussed in chapter 1, within a poststructural framework, there are no fixed subjects with stable and immutable identities. Identity is a product of our temporary attachments to subject positions that anch...
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Girls’ Style as a Point of Convergence
Before moving on to a discussion of how girls used style to construct and negotiate their identities in the school, it is useful to place the topic within a broader framework by asking an awkward question: How d...
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“If You Dress Like This, Then You’re Like That”: Positions and Recognitions
While ESH presented its fair share of social challenges to girls, finding “your own people” was certainly possible if you knew how to look. Style was the most common way in which girls were able to see similarit...
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Dressing the Part: Deep Surfaces and Contingent Conclusions
Dressing the Part, the subtitle of this book, comes from a conversation that I had with Zeni one dreary Friday afternoon while we were waiting for Ms. Mackenzie to open the door for English class. We were discus...
