Transnational Girlhoods. Living Like a Girl : : Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond / / ed. by Linda Arnell, Maria A. Vogel.

In recent decades, large-scale social changes have taken place in Europe. Ranging from neoliberal social policies to globalization and the growth of EU, these changes have significantly affected the conditions in which girls shape their lives. Living Like a Girl explores the relationship between cha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Transnational Girlhoods ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION Introducing the Lives of Girls in a European Context and Beyond: Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures
  • PART I Agency and Embodiment: Girls Gendered Experiences of Vulnerability and Social Problems
  • CHAPTER 1 Girlhood and Agency in a Turbulent Society: Russian Girls Caught in the Maze of a Conservative Turn
  • CHAPTER 2 Just Ordinary: Self-Surveillance in Relation to Gender and (Dis)Ability Norms
  • CHAPTER 3 Youth Consumptions, Agency and Signs of Girlhood: Rethinking Young Italian Females’ Lifestyles
  • CHAPTER 4 ‘Good Girl’ Israeli Ethiopian Girls Negotiate Their Blackness
  • CHAPTER 5 Fighting Like a Boy? Victimization and Agency in the Lives of Young Women Who Offend
  • PART II Transitions to Adulthood: Girls’ Prospects of Education, Employment and Family
  • CHAPTER 6 Poor Educational Attainment, Training Opportunities and Transitions to Adulthood: The Case of Young Spanish Women
  • CHAPTER 7 Transitions of Young Women from Education to Employment in Croatia: Social Reproduction at Work
  • CHAPTER 8 Study Counselling Experiences and Educational Choice-Making of Girls with Migrant Backgrounds in the Context of Finnish General Upper Secondary Education
  • CHAPTER 9 ‘We Can’t Keep Her Here, She’s Too Bad’ Understanding the Role of Inclusion Programmes in Working-Class Girls’ Post-School Trajectories
  • PART III Support and Control: Welfare Measures Handling Girls in Different Contexts
  • CHAPTER 10 Becoming a ‘Football Girl’ On Disidentification and Appropriation of Gender Norms and Hierarchies in Sports-Based Interventions in the Swedish Urban Periphery
  • CHAPTER 11 ‘Really, I Can Take Care of Myself’ Protection and Care in Danish Secure Institutions
  • CHAPTER 12 Girlhood Incarcerated: Perspectives from Secure Care
  • CONCLUSION (How) Can You Live Like a Girl? Summing up Differences and Similarities
  • INDEX