Daughters of Suburbia Growing up White, Middle Class, and Female

Name: Daughters of Suburbia Growing up White, Middle Class, and Female
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ISBN: 9780813528533

ISBN-10: 0813528534

ISBN-13: 9780813528533

Edition: 2000

Authors: Lorraine Kenny

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"A deeply troubling, memorable account of teen girls learning the ways of whiteness, Kenny's ethnography helps us to see how a white norm is produced and maintained in suburbia and lets us eavesdrop as the girls police themselves and are policed by the media." --Maureen Reddy, author of Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture "This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on the social construction of whiteness and to work on U.S. popular culture. It will be of widespread interest." --Kamala Visweswaran, author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography White middle-class suburbia represents all that is considered "normal" in the United States, especially to the people…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Truth or Dare



Raising Teenage Girls: Suburban Landscapes and the Culture of Privilege



Amy Fisher, My Story: Learning to Love the Unlovable



Justify My Love: The Heterosexuality of Teenage Girlhood



Among Friends: Stories That Make a Normal Life Possible



I Was a Teenage White Supremacist



Learning to Tell White Lies: Living with the Other in the Anti-Other America


Conclusion: Listening to White Girls' Stories


Epilogue: On Writing Behind Girls' Backs


Notes


Bibliography


Index