Growing Up Girl: Psycho-Social Explorations of Class and Gender

by June Melody, Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey

Book Overview

Throughout the Western world our social fabric is being transformed, leaving few lives untouched. Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organization of family, education, and work.
Growing Up Girl explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. It explores the complexities of class transformation as young women approach a radically altered labor market and examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814793835
• ISBN13: 9780814793831
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"