discourses of class intersect with the gendered discipline of girls in secure care. Secure care can be understood as a site in which repressive and productive forms of power meet to produce subjects (Foucault [1974]1987). Such a theoretical perspective
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Ensuring Failure?
The Impact of Class on Girls in Swedish Secure Care
Maria A. Vogel
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 80–96 (17 total)
Working Hard, Hanging Back
Constructing the Achieving Girl
Colette Slagle
discursively created across many context-specific sites. Drawing from Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge , she examines both media constructions and girls’ own constructions of such a girl. The book is a multisite, interdisciplinary study that works to
“Farmers Don't Dance”
The Construction of Gender in a Rural Scottish School
Fiona G. Menzies and Ninetta Santoro
position to occupy rather than a fixed role” ( McRae 1996: 242 ). We draw here on the work of Foucault (1974 , 1980 , 1981 ) and Judith Butler (1990 , 2004) to offer insight into how and why pupils take up gendered positions in school. Of particular
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 67–82 (16 total)
The Abstinence Only Until Marriage Program and Girl (Dis)empowerment
Kaoru Miyazawa
citizenship ( Weeks 1998 ). At the same time, in the history of modern nation-states, as Foucault pointed out (see Davidson 2008 ; Dreyfus and Rabinow 1983 ), sexuality has also been the major site in which biopower has operated to regulate citizens
Ethical Practice and the Study of Girlhood
April Mandrona
Saba Mahmood who extends Michel Foucault’s theorizing. In her reading of Foucault, for example, Mahmood writes, Foucault distinguished ethical practices from ‘morals,’ reserving the latter to refer to sets of norms, rules, values, and injunctions
“Something Good Distracts Us from the Bad”
Girls Cultivating Disruption
Crystal Leigh Endsley
different version of success. Social institutions like family and school consume large portions of girls’ lives, often working to ensure that they are read in disempowering ways while managing them accordingly (see Foucault 1980 ). These relationships are
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 63–78 (16 total)
Disability, Girlhood, and Vulnerability in Transnational Contexts
Nirmala Erevelles and Xuan Thuy Nguyen
and Lennard Davis . Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan . 10.1057/9781137023001_17 Gannon , Susanne , and Marnina Gonick ( 2014 ). “ ‘Choir Practice’ in Three Movements: Analyzing a Story of Girlhood through Deleuze, Butler, and Foucault .” Pp
Lolita Speaks
Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss”
Michele Meek
: a Memoir in Books .” Women’s Studies 43 ( 1 ): 52 – 72 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2014.852422 . 10.1080/00497878.2014.852422 Hocquenghem , Guy , Michel Foucault , and Jean Danet . 1988 . “ Sexual Morality and the Law .” In
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 152–167 (16 total)
Guiding Girls
Neoliberal Governance and Government Educational Resource Manuals in Canada
Lisa Smith and Stephanie Paterson
-being, and overall lifestyle are both valued and encouraged ( Lupton 1995 ; Rose 1990 ). Thus, girl power is part of a more general move towards the cultivation of subjects who, according to Michel Foucault (1991) , internalize surveillance and govern
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 13–29 (17 total)
The Discourse of Drama
Regulating Girls in an Icelandic School
Bergljót Thrastardóttir, Steinunn Helga Lárusdóttir, and Ingólfur Ásgeir Jóhannesson
role in the construction of gender identities. These practices position girls and boys as essentially different as well as defining what counts as normal and legitimate gender performativity ( Butler 2004 ; Foucault 1982 , 1998 ). In order to
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
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- 90–106 (17 total)
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