Private practices: girls reading fiction and constructing identity
Auteur :
Meredith Cherland University of Regina, Saskatchewan
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780748402250
Date de publication :
13 oct. 1994
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
566 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Examines the broad fictional reading of middle class pre-teen girls in ethnographic detail, and describes the place of literacy in the construction of gender. The book provides evidence to support its central assumption: gender is a cultural and social construction, not a biological given.