Table of Contents

Introduction Girl Power: Representations of the "New Girl" Reviving Ophelia: Girlhood as Crisis Education, Work and Self-Making Girls and the Changing Family Re/sisters: Girls' Cultures and Friendships Sexuality and the Body: Old Binaries and New Possibilities Politics, Citizenship and Young Women Feminism, Power and Social Change Conclusion Bibliography Index.

About the Author

SINIKKA AAPOLA is a Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. MARNINA GONICK is a Sociologist specializing in educational sociology and media studies. She is Assistant Professor, Education and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA. ANITA HARRIS is a Political Scientist specializing in feminist theory. She lectures in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia.