The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion [Paperback]

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Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association

In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.

• Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on female moral development by challenging the notion that girls are inherently supportive of each other
• Examines the stances that girls on a playground in a multicultural school setting assume and shows how they position themselves in their peer groups
• Documents the language practices and degradation rituals used to sanction friends and to bully others
• Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

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• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (December 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 063123425X
• ISBN-13: 978-0631234258
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.7 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion

List of Figures and Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

2. Multimodality, Conflict, and Rationality in Girls’ Games.

3. Social Dimensions of a Popular Girls’ Clique.

4. Social Organization, Opposition, and Directives in the Game of Jump Rope.

5. Language Practices for Indexing Social Status: Stories, Descriptions, Brags, and Comparisons.

6. Stance and Structure in Assessment and Gossip Activity.

7. Constructing Social Difference and Exclusion in Girls’ Groups.

8. Conclusion.

Appendix A: Transcription Symbols.

Appendix B: Jump Rope Rhymes.

Notes.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index

Wow.. Kids are brats... and Goodwin sure tells us a lot about children in this interesting anthropological look at brats on the playground. The kids she observes clearly have a severe pecking order. Girls bully and belittle boys, boys retaliate, etc. I guess though, it shows you one thing after you read it, people really do never change!

This is a great book though if you are interested in the topic of anthropology, fieldwork, or studies involving children and conversational analysis. There is a lot of insight, and its good if you want to do this kind of fieldwork to see how someone else performed it. The interviews and interactions are quite telling.

By drD

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