{"product_id":"daughters-of-suburbia-growing-up-white-middle-class-and-female-9780813528533","title":"Daughters of Suburbia Growing Up White Middle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart ethnography, part cultural study, this text examines the lives of teenage girls from the world of the Long Island, New York, middle school in order to explore how standards of normalcy define gender, exercise power, and reinforce the cultural practices of whiteness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes a significant contribution to the literature on the social construction of whiteness and to work on U.S. popular culture. It will be of widespread interest. -- Kamala Visweswaran * author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography *\u003cbr\u003eA deeply troubling, memorable account of teen girls learning the ways of whiteness, Kenny's ethnography helps us to see how a white norm is produced and maintained in suburbia and lets us eavesdrop as the girls police themselves and are policed by the media. -- Maureen Reddy * author of Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Truth or Dare        \u003cbr\u003e Raising Teenage Girls: Suburban Landscapes and the Culture of Privilege\u003cbr\u003e My Story: Learning to Love the Unlovable\u003cbr\u003e Amy Fisher Justify My Love: The Heterosexuality of Teenage Girlhood\u003cbr\u003e Among Friends: Stories That Make a Normal Life Possible\u003cbr\u003e I Was a Teenage White Supremacist\u003cbr\u003e Learning to Tell White Lies: Living with the Other in the Anti-Other America\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Listening to White Girls' Stories        \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: On Writing Behind Girls' Backs      \u003cbr\u003e Notes      \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography      \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405774299479,"sku":"9780813528533","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813528533.jpg?v=1730493568","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/daughters-of-suburbia-growing-up-white-middle-class-and-female-9780813528533","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}