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"It's just easier not to go to school" : adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olafson, Lori, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
Series:Adolescent cultures, school & society ; v. 28.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Education (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States.
Middle school students > Social conditions > United States.
Body image in adolescence > Social aspects > United States.
Body image in women > Social aspects > United States.
Feminism and education > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "A more complete telling"
  • Interpreting resistance
  • Reconstructing life stories
  • Theoretical framework : bodies, relationships of power, and regimes of truth
  • Regimes of the body
  • Schooling the body in physical education
  • "The impossible belly of impossibility."