Women's Studies Journal
Women's Studies Journal
Spring 1999 - 15:2
'Girl Trouble? Feminist Inquiry Into the Lives of Young Women'
Contents:
- 'It's Life Jim, But Not as We Know It': The Trouble with Girls' Achievements in Science Education
Jane Gilbert - Girls Growing up on the Edge of the Millennium
Valerie Walkerdine - 'You Have to be Pretty, You Have to be Slim and You Have to be Heterosexual, I Think': The Operation and Disruption of Heteronormalising Processes Within the Peer Culture of Two Single Sex Girls' High Schools in New Zealand
Kathleen Quinlivan - 'Coming Out/Going Home': Australian Girls and Young Women Interrogating Racism and Heterosexism
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli - Shattered Dreams and Alienated Bodies: Transsexual Journeys Through Girlhood
Denise Bates - Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know: Adolescence and the Production of Femininity
Anita Harris - Damned if We Do, Damned if We Don't: New Zealand and United Kingdom High School Students Negotiation of Sexual Identities
Myra J. Hird and Sue M. Jackson - Female Youth: Gender and Life Phases from a Historical and Socio-cultural Perspective
Marion E. P. de Ras
Book Reviews:
- Talking Up: Young Women's Take on Feminism, (eds) Rosamund Else-Mitchell and Naomi Flutters, reviewed by Kirsty Wild.
- Understanding Children's Development: A New Zealand Perspective, by Annie B. Smith, reviewed by Helen Mavoa.
- The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander, by Rae McGregor, reviewed by Aorewa McLeod.
- Still Life: Hidden Stories of Stillbirth and Forbidden Grief, by Lois Tonkin, reviewed by Liz Kiata-Holland.
- Interactive Identities: Jewish Women in New Zealand, by Livia Kathe Wittmann, reviewed by Nina Nola.
- Folding Back the Shadows: A Perspective on Women's Mental Health, by Sarah Romans, reviewed by Marion Doherty.
Cover Photograph: Documento 3, Victoria Martinez Azaro, 1999