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Direct linkJohnson, Tracy Pilar – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: It may appear a simple question for a 12 year old girl to ask: "what should I wear today for school?" But simplicity is deceptive when the possibilities are many and each carries with it a specific and dangerous weight. In this paper I start with a Hmong girl in Ban Rongrian, Thailand, as she faces forms of…
Descriptors: Research Design, Speech Acts, Females, Hmong People
Peer reviewedOliver, Kimberly L. – Teachers College Record, 1999
Explored how fashion helped urban adolescent girls desire and create normalized images of the perfect woman, examining their stories about their bodies and how their stories and images empowered them to become healthy women. Data from group discussions, journal writing, freewriting, and written stories indicated that fashion taught girls to desire…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Clothing, Females
