Overview

Investigates the invisible and/or taken-for-granted places where lessons on gender and identity are translated to girls and women.This volume brings together leading feminist scholars in philosophy, cultural and literary studies, communications, social psychology, sociology, education, and politics. Included are essays by Sandra Lee Bartky, Susan Bordo, Rey Chow, Zillah Eisenstein, Susan Willis, Anne Woollett and Ann Phoenix. Chapters include analyses of media and popular cultural representations of women's and girls' bodies and desires; constructs of gender and cultural identity in contemporary legal texts and the discourse of testimony; popular cultural constructs of gendered and racialized parenthood, childhood, and motherhood; academic discourse on and mothers' accounts of mothering; pedagogies of care and relationality in women's friendships; the privatization of public space and corporatization of children's play; and cultural and gender identity politics around knowledge relations in the university classroom.