Getting What They Deserve: Eighth-Grade Girls, Culture, and Empowerment.

Fishman, Andrea R.

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ERIC Number: EJ540768

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Getting What They Deserve: Eighth-Grade Girls, Culture, and Empowerment.

Fishman, Andrea R.

Voices from the Middle, v3 n1 p25-32 Feb 1996

Reports on a study of stories written by eighth graders in three very different schools, stories carrying powerful messages about how girls understand their place in the world. Finds that, in one set of stories, females control their lives only as long as they are "good," and in the other set, autonomous female protagonists fail (often for no discernible reason). (SR)

Descriptors: Content Analysis, Females, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Self Concept, Sex Bias, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Student Attitudes, Student Empowerment, Student Writing Models, Writing Research

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Published by the National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096.