Living Like a Girl

Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond

Maria A. Vogel, Linda Arnell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-147-9 (ISBN)

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In recent decades, large-scale social changes have taken place in Europe. Ranging from neoliberal social policies to globalization and the growth of EU, these changes have significantly affected the conditions in which girls shape their lives. Living Like a Girl explores the relationship between changing social conditions and girls’ agency, with a particular focus on social services such as school programs and compulsory institutional care. The contributions in this collected volume seek to expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.

Maria A. Vogel has a PhD in Social work and is director of research at a municipal Research and Development unit in Stockholm, Sweden. Her main research areas are young people with psychosocial problems, and secure care. An overall theme in her research is the role of gender in young people’s lives and development, with a special interest in teenage girls and the construction of girlhood.

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Introduction: Introducing the Lives of Girls in a European Context and Beyond: Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures

Linda Arnell and Maria A. Vogel

PART I: AGENCY AND EMBODIMENT: GIRLS GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF VULNERABILITY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Chapter 1. Girlhood and Agency in a Turbulent Society: Russian Girls Caught in the Maze of a Conservative Turn

Olga Zdravomyslova and Elena Onegina

Chapter 2. Just Ordinary: Self-Surveillance in Relation to Gender and (Dis)Ability Norms

Kamilla Peuravaara

Chapter 3. Youth Consumption, Agency and Signs of Girlhood: Rethinking Young Italian Females’ Lifestyles

Geraldina Roberti

Chapter 4. 'Good Girl': Israeli Ethiopian Girls Negotiate Their Blackness

Sigal Oppenhaim-Shachar

Chapter 5. Fighting Like a Boy? Victimization and Agency in the Lives of Young Women Who Offend

Susan A. Batchelor

PART II: TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD: GIRLS' PROSPECTS OF EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY

Chapter 6. Poor Educational Attainment, Training Opportunities, and Transitions to Adulthood: The Case of Young Spanish Women

Elena Quintana-Murci, María Tugores-Ques and Francesca Salvà-Mut

Chapter 7. Transitions of Young Women from Education to Employment in Croatia: Social Reproduction at Work

Dunja Potocnik

Chapter 8. Study Counselling Experiences and Educational Choice-Making of Girls with Migrant Backgrounds in the Context of Finnish General Upper Secondary Education

Linda Maria Laaksonen, Anna-Maija Niemi and Markku Jahnukainen

Chapter 9. ’We Can’t Keep Her Here, She’s Too Bad’: Understanding the Role of Inclusion Programmes in Working-Class Girls' Post-School Trajectories

Hannah Walters

PART III: SUPPORT AND CONTROL: WELFARE MEASURES HANDLING GIRLS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS

Chapter 10. Becoming a 'Football Girl': On Disidentification and Appropriation of Gender Norms and Hierarchies in Sports-Based Interventions in the Swedish Urban Periphery

Magnus Dahlstedt, David Ekholm and Julia Rönnbäck

Chapter 11. 'Really, I Can Take Care of Myself': Protection and Care in Danish Secure Institutions

Ann-Karina Henriksen

Chapter 12. Girlhood Incarcerated: Perspectives from Secure Care

Annie Crowley, Anna Schliehe and Maria A. Vogel

Conclusion: (How) Can You Live Like a Girl?: Summing Up Differences and Similarities

Maria A. Vogel & Linda Arnell

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Transnational Girlhoods
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80073-147-7 / 1800731477
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-147-9 / 9781800731479
Zustand	Neuware