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Learning To Be Women: A Study Of Adolescent Girls In Rural Ontario, Laura Lockhart
Learning To Be Women: A Study Of Adolescent Girls In Rural Ontario, Laura Lockhart
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In order to explore the forming subjectivities of rural young women, the material and discursive conditions of girls’ lives are examined with a focus on how rural adolescent girls come to understand themselves within their worlds, how their consciousness of limitations and possibilities develops, and how this translates into agency and self-direction. The analysis draws on data collected during five months of ethnographic research with seven grade ten, eleven, and twelve female students in a rural community in Ontario’s near north. It starts from their experiences in order to look at their lives and options from their standpoint.
Using Bourdieu’s …