Willett, Rebekah;
(2008)
'What you wear tells a lot about you': Girls dressup online.
Gender and Education
, 20
(5)
pp. 421-434.
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| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'What you wear tells a lot about you': Girls dressup online |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article in published in the leading international (peer reviewed) journal on gender in education. The article uses an innovative methodology to examine discursive practices around body image, pleasures of play and self-confidence in the lives of twenty-six 12-13 year old girls. The analysis examines the role of structure and agency in girls’ discussions about fashion media and argues that the agency offered to girls is structured by neoliberal discourses. As girls draw on these discourses, they enter into complex and often conflicting negotiations, rendering themselves as seemingly active agents who are making politicised arguments, and at the same time restricting their possible subject positions. This is an electronic version of an article published in Willett, Rebekah (2008) 'What you wear tells a lot about you': Girls dressup online. Gender and Education, 20 . pp. 421-434. Gender and Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/09540250701797242 |
| Keywords: | Gender , 11 - 16 , Cultural studies , Media |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10000243 |
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