"It's just easier not to go to school" : adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school

"It's just easier not to go to school" : adolescent girls and disengagement in middle school / Lori Olafson.

Author/creator	Olafson, Lori, 1961-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Peter Lang, ©2006.
Description	x, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Teenage girls--Education (Secondary) --Social aspects --United States. Middle school students--Social conditions --United States. Body image in adolescence--Social aspects --United States. Body image in women--Social aspects --United States. Feminism and education--United States.

Series	Adolescent cultures, school, and society, 1091-1464 ; v. 28 Adolescent cultures, school & society ; v. 28. ^A474523
Contents	Introduction -- "A more complete telling" -- Interpreting resistance -- Reconstructing life stories -- Theoretical framework : bodies, relationships of power, and regimes of truth -- Regimes of the body -- Schooling the body in physical education -- "The impossible belly of impossibility."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-163) and index.
LCCN	2004014183
ISBN	0820467626 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	LC1755 .O53 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold