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Pomerantz, Shauna; Raby, Rebecca – Gender and Education, 2020
This article adds to the literature on smart girlhood by exploring the topic through Karen Barad's theory of post-human performativity. We focus on the transcripts of two participants from a larger study on girls and academic success in Canada in order to highlight the material, discursive, embodied, and temporal entanglements that co-produce the…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Human Body, Talent
Murphy, Erin K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
At present, school administrators do not have necessary information to create a school environment where teenage girls unhappy with their bodies can experience success at school. This research surrounds three research questions: (1) How do adolescent girls' definitions of their bodies relate to their perception of their high school's climate? (2)…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, High Schools, Physical Education, Qualitative Research