Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies
Activism in the GirlZone
- 245 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Winner of the 2010 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award presented by The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition This book explores the rise and fall of a grassroots, girl-centered organization, GirlZone, which sought to make social change on a local level. Whether skateboarding or designing Web pages, celebrating in weekend "GrrrlFests" or producing a biweekly RadioGirl program, participants in GirlZone came to understand themselves as competent actors in a variety of activities they had previously thought were closed off to them. Drawing on six years of fieldwork examining GirlZone from its inception until its demise, Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau offers insights on the current state of and study of literacy in the extracurriculum. She addresses how girls have become cultural flashpoints reflecting societalâand particularly feministâanxieties and hopes about the present and the future. Sheridan-Rabideau does more than chronicle the pressure girls face; she offers advice on how feminists, cultural critics, and activists can effect social change on local levels, even in today's increasingly globalized contexts.
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Table of contents
- Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowlegments
- PART ONE: Setting the Scene
- PART TWO: Literacy in Action: Complicating Feminist Design
- CODA: Success and Sustainability
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index