Hidden Life of Girls

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-631-23424-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association

In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.
- Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on female moral development by challenging the notion that girls are inherently supportive of each other
- Examines the stances that girls on a playground in a multicultural school setting assume and shows how they position themselves in their peer groups
- Documents the language practices and degradation rituals used to sanction friends and to bully others
- Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodwin, Majorie Harness

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

2. Multimodality, Conflict, and Rationality in Girls’ Games.

3. Social Dimensions of a Popular Girls’ Clique.

4. Social Organization, Opposition, and Directives in the Game of Jump Rope.

5. Language Practices for Indexing Social Status: Stories, Descriptions, Brags, and Comparisons.

6. Stance and Structure in Assessment and Gossip Activity.

7. Constructing Social Difference and Exclusion in Girls’ Groups.

8. Conclusion.

Appendix A: Transcription Symbols.

Appendix B: Jump Rope Rhymes.

Notes.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marjorie Harness Goodwin is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. She is the author of the now-classic He-Said, She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children (1991). Her primary research interests are on the ethnography of communication, human interaction, conversation analysis, language and gender, workplace ethnography, and children's social organization.