Girlhoods and Social Action

An Intersectional Analysis of Inequality in Working-Class Girls' Participation
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7859-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Working-class girls make vital contributions to society through social action, yet their efforts are too often rendered invisible or unrecognised. Girlhoods and Social Action confronts the persistent inequalities shaping participation, revealing how intersecting power relations related to gender, class and race both constrain and devalue girls’ efforts.

Drawing on empirical research and an ethnographic study of 17 working-class, mainly racially-minoritised, girls across three schools in London’s poorest boroughs, this book exposes how structural disadvantage influences access to opportunities and shapes girls’ experiences and outcomes.

Offering an original intersectional framework, the book rethinks youth social action through the concepts of the ‘successful girl’, the ‘good girl’ and the ‘authentic girl’. It demonstrates how social action can both reproduce and challenge inequality and proposes new ways to conceptualise participation that foreground girls’ voices, agency and lived realities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor-Collins, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Understanding Inequality in Participation

3. Intersectional Girlhoods

4. Situating Working-Class Girls' Participation in Social Action

5. The Successful Girl

6. The Good Girl

7. The Authentic Girl

8. How Power and Inequalities Shape Working-Class Girls' Social Action

9. Conclusions

Methodological Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Taylor-Collins, Emma
Emma Taylor-Collins is Assistant Director of Research, Innovation and Insights at Social Care Wales. This book is based on research conducted while at the University of Birmingham.