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The hidden life of girls : games of stance, status, and exclusion / Marjorie Harness Goodwin.

Author/creator Goodwin, Marjorie Harness
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMalden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Descriptionxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
Girls--Social networks --Case studies.
Girls--Psychology --Case studies.
Social interaction in children--Case studies.
Interpersonal relations in children--Case studies.
Series Blackwell studies in discourse and culture
Blackwell studies in discourse and culture. ^A710127
Contents Multimodality, conflict, and rationality in girls' games -- Social dimensions of a popular girls' clique -- Social organization, opposition, and directives in the game of jump rope -- Language practices for indexing social status : stories, descriptions, brags, and comparisons -- Stance and structure in assessment and gossip activity -- Constructing social difference and exclusion in girls' groups.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-316) and indexes.
LCCN 2006004752
ISBN0631234241 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780631234241 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN063123425X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780631234258 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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