carried and had also learned how her father used a homemade tool (“he uses this to measure”) to align the furrows. Far from the stereotypical images of children engaged in child labor, the Estrella children climbed trees, picked fruit and vegetables that
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Girls’ Work in a Rural Intercultural Setting
Formative Experiences and Identity in Peasant Childhood
Ana Padawer
Solveig Roth and Dagny Stuedahl
. Markers (signs) that cross figure worlds can be associated with social categories. Different religious symbols, such as headscarves, can stereotype someone as a so-called oppressed woman within some figured worlds or as a woman who fears God in others. The
Indigenous Girls in Rural Mexico
A Success Story?
Mercedes González de la Rocha and Agustín Escobar Latapí
.” Children’s regular school attendance has become the best way to secure an income in the present (through cash transfers) and, at the same time, higher school achievements as a tool for the future. Paradoxically, women’s disadvantages—associated with gender-stereotyped
“Loving and Cruel, All at the Same Time”
Girlhood Identity in The Craft
Emily Chandler
film about a girl being bullied by her former friends. That they are her friends, rather than a group of one-dimensional stereotypical mean girls, is crucial to the efficacy of this narrative. Nancy, Bonnie, and Rochelle’s acceptance shows Sarah that
Freak Temporality
Female Adolescence in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Alison Sperling
, civilized woman, the Half-Man Half-Woman embodies the dueling characteristics that make up stereotypical masculinity and femininity in Frankie herself. She oscillates throughout the novel between being rough, tough, and dirty, to being sweet, well
Barbara Roche Rico
[seem to be] unrelated to ethnic preferences or out-group stereotype responses,” even if some of the girls see themselves as being a part of an in-group of residents (2004: 229). The situation changes, however, after an adult intervenes: a parent, who
Sharing Images, Spoiling Meanings?
Class, Gender, and Ethics in Visual Research with Girls
Janet Fink and Helen Lomax
appearance and so the content of the photograph also appears to encapsulate two contrasting portrayals of girlhood. Alicia embodies a stereotypically feminine girl—physically slight, with long straightened blonde hair, dressed in shorts and a low
Narratives of Ambivalence
The Ethics of Vulnerability and Agency in Research with Girls in the Sex Trade
Alexandra Ricard-Guay and Myriam Denov
like I was a whore already. (Sophie) At other points of their narratives, girls also appeared to challenge actively their victimhood status. During interviews, participants often presented themselves in direct contrast to the stereotypical image of
Sami Schalk
how her disability affects the way people treat her and she generally works against nondisabled people’s stereotypes, and their discomfort and pity even as these emotions are naturalized through McKenna’s narration. Additionally, Josie’s disability
Towards a Fairer Future
An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership
Courtney Cook
professionals; these can include “racial differences in speech and socialization [and] ethno-sexual stereotypes” ( Davis and Sanchez-Hucles 2010: 173 ) that are used to devalue their Blackness by setting it in competition with their professionalism. These