Private Practices: Girls Reading Fiction And Constructing Identity by Meredith Cherland University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Private Practices
Summary
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.
Private Practices Summary
Table of Contents
A Constructed World: Chapter 1 - Gender Practices - The Cultural Reproduction of Gender in Oak Town; Chapter 2 - Literacy Practices - The Reproduction of Gendered Reading; Chapter 3 - Instructional Practices - Gender and Reading at School; Chapter 4 - Identity Practices - Reading Fiction and Constructing a Gendered Subjectivity; Chapter 5 - Private Lessons.
Additional information
GOR008416698
9780748402267
0748402268
Private Practices: Girls Reading Fiction And Constructing Identity by Meredith Cherland University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1994-10-13
242
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