Private Practices: Girls Reading Fiction And Constructing Identity (Critical Perspectives of Literacy S.)

by Meredith Cherland (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  Examines the broad fictional reading of middle class pre-teen girls in ethnographic detail, and describes the place of literacy in the construction of gender. The book provides evidence to support its central assumption: gender is a cultural and social construction, not a biological given.

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $57.10

  Examines the broad fictional reading of middle class pre-teen girls in ethnographic detail, and describes the place of literacy in the construction of gender. The book provides evidence to support its central assumption: gender is a cultural and social construction, not a biological given.