Tough Girls

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512807172

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Tough Girls by Sherrie A. Inness Pdf

Tough girls are everywhere these days. Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in the films, television series, advertisements, and comic books of recent decades. In Tough Girls, Sherrie A. Inness explores the changing representations of women in all forms of popular media and what those representations suggest about shifting social mores. She begins her examination of tough women in American popular culture with three popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s—The Avengers, Charlie's Angels, and The Bionic Woman—and continues through such contemporary pieces as a recent ad for Calvin Klein jeans and current television series such as The X-files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Although all these portrayals show women who can take care of themselves in ways that have historically been seen as uniquely male, they also variously undercut women's toughness. She argues that even some of the strongest depictions of women have perpetuated women's subordinate status, using toughness in complicated ways to break or bend gender stereotypes while simultaneously affirming them. Also of interest— Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay

Author : L Janelle Dance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136745997

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Tough Fronts by L Janelle Dance Pdf

Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools. Individual chapters discuss scholarly depictions of black America, the social complexity of the teacher-student relationship, individual success stories of 'at-risk' programs, popular images of urban students, and implications for education policy. With close attention to the voices of individual students, this engaging book gives vitality and legitimacy to arguments for school changes that have been lacking in previous discussions.

Author : Kathy Cloninger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118000045

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Tough Cookies by Kathy Cloninger Pdf

Fundamental principles for how Girl Scouts USA is run and why it's so successful Millions of American businesswomen, thought leaders, and politicians received their first lessons in salesmanship, money management, marketing, teamwork, and fulfillment in the Girl Scouts. The Girls Scouts has shaped the lives of more than 50 million alumnae alive today. Eighty percent of American female senior business executives and business owners are former Girl Scouts. In March 2012, the Girl Scouts will celebrate their 100th anniversary. Tough Cookies captures the essence of this iconic organization and the principles that have allowed them to build and sustain a 100-year-old organization. Under current CEO Kathy Cloninger's leadership, the Girl Scouts has transformed and enhanced its ability to develop leadership in young women. Tough Cookies outlines the rise of the Girl Scouts, this recent and dramatically successful shift, and lessons that are applicable to make any business or organization a success. An inspiring story of the Girl Scouts founding, along with leadership and business lessons that can be applied to organizations of any size No other organization compares to Girl Scouts in size, experience, and resources devoted to developing leadership skills Publication coincides with the 100-year anniversary of GSUSA What can your business learn from the Girl Scouts?

Author : Laurie Schaffner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813539461

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Girls in Trouble with the Law by Laurie Schaffner Pdf

In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced physical harm and sexual assaults. For girls, the meaning of these and other factors such as the violence they experience remain undertheorized and below the radar of mainstream sociolegal scholarship. When gender is considered as an analytic category, Schaffner shows how gender is often seen through an outmoded lens. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile legal system, Schaffner makes a compelling argument that current policies do not go far enough to empower disadvantaged girls so that communities can assist them in overcoming the social limitations and gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic discrimination that continue to plague young women growing up in contemporary United States.

Author : Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791472981

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Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies by Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau Pdf

Case study of the life of a feminist organization in a changing political and funding climate.

Author : R. Salo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956550388

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Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters by R. Salo Pdf

The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Towns inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerational and gendered process that is messy and uneven, involves the expression of often-brutal physical and social exclusion of individuals through embodied and social violence. Theoretically, the narrative makes visible the careful, painstaking processes of place making and claiming dignity by men and women in a place represented as a wasteland in the dominant discourse of grand apartheid and in the contemporary neo-liberal turn in Cape Town.

Author : Norman Edgar Wengert
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781490707990

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Women's Intuition by Norman Edgar Wengert Pdf

Women?s Intuition by Norman Edgar Wengert, Doctor of Chiropractic whose 50-year clinical practice inspired development of Enchanted Sight, a method he teaches to control interaction at the interface of left brain logic and right brain intuitive input ?? our access point to our non-mental, non-physical nature ?? proving the sixth or psychic sense is primary, discovering women experience twice the number of feelings(hundreds) men do, giving them access to twice the knowledge. He and his researchers reveal it is possible to download and transpose the actual meanings contained in myriad enigmas produced by the sixth sense.

Author : Kushal Singh
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783748754404

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The Tough Life by Kushal Singh Pdf

Attractive lovely rhyming poems that will give every thought wings and will take you to the mirror of world and its reality. Will make you realise how cruel and beautiful the world is, means showing the positive as well as negative side of the world and people. How some people struggle and win or get tramped on by the heavy murders of dreams and a man's thoughts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412227131

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How to Win Your Next Soccer Game and Coaching Very Young Soccer Players by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eleanor E. Maccoby,Carol Nagy Jacklin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0804709742

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The Psychology of Sex Differences by Eleanor E. Maccoby,Carol Nagy Jacklin Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Sheila Kitzinger,Celia Kitzinger
Publisher : Harvard Common Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1558320326

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Tough Questions by Sheila Kitzinger,Celia Kitzinger Pdf

Helps parents of children ages three to twelve explore their own values so that they can communicate them clearly to their children.

Author : Kimberly Alyn,Bob Phillips
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780736937139

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Men Are Slobs, Women Are Neat by Kimberly Alyn,Bob Phillips Pdf

Author : Debra Pepler,H. Bruce Ferguson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781554588732

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Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems by Debra Pepler,H. Bruce Ferguson Pdf

Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems reflects a major shift in understanding children’s aggressive-behaviour problems. Researchers used to study what went wrong with a troubled child and needed to be fixed; we now aim to understand what is going wrong in children’s relationships that might create, exacerbate, and maintain aggressive-behaviour problems in childhood and adolescence. In this volume, leading researchers in the aggression field examine how problems develop for boys and girls in relationships and how we can help children to develop healthy relationships. Individual chapters explore biological and social contexts, including physical health and relationship problems that might underlie the development of aggressive behaviour problems. The impact of relationships on girls’ development is illustrated to be particularly important for Aboriginal girls. Contributors discuss prevention and intervention strategies that help aggressive children build the requisite skills and relationship capacities and also shift dynamics within critical social contexts, such as the family, peer group, classroom, and school. The support of healthy development not only of children but of their parents and other important adults in their lives, including teachers has been shown to be effective in reducing the burden of suffering associated with aggression among children and adolescents—for youth themselves as well as their families, peers, schools, communities, and society.

Author : Paula Ruth Gilbert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773577107

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Violence and the Female Imagination by Paula Ruth Gilbert Pdf

In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.

Author : Ruby C. Tapia
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816653102

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American Pietàs by Ruby C. Tapia Pdf

What visual tropes of race, death, and motherhood tell us about citizenship.